Blessings of Khilafat — Page 63
63 I ra passed away, I felt that the vision was in fact a great prophecy, and it contained the tiding that after Hadrat Maulav i Sahib ra , the office of Khilafat will be assigned to me. This was the reason why Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra was shown to me dressed like Sir Omor Kray. So far as the command of the army is concerned, that meant leadership of the Jam a ‘at, for the Jam a ‘ats of the Prophets too are armies through whom God causes the faith to prevail. Due to this vision, I hope that the propagation of true Islam will, God willing, take place at the hands of the Ahmadiyya Jam a ‘at and not at the hands of the rebels of Khilafat , with the exception of only a few of those whom God may wish to grant some partial success. But there is no doubt that the blessings that will be vouchsafed to the efforts of those who will submit to Khilafat will be overwhelming as compared to those who would receive them only partially. When considered further, the vision appears to be such a great testimony from the Divine that the more one reflects upon it, the more it appears to exhibit the glory of God Almighty. The reason is that the Promised Messiah as has been shown as Lord Kitchner in this vision, and Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra as Sir Omar Kray. When we look at the career of these two people, we find that Lord Kitchner left India the same year the Promised Messiah as had passed away, and Sir Omar Kray was appointed as Commander in Chief in his place. This was but one aspect of the interpretation. What is even more surprising is the fact that the year and the month in which Sir Omar Kray left India was March 1914. It was the same month and year in which Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra passed away and God had appointed me his successor. Can anyone possessed of virtue and piety say that the vision was a satanic one; or can anyone imagine a human being able to fabricate such a vision some two or