Blessings of Khilafat — Page 23
23 Incident at the N u u u u r Mosque One more objection made by these people is that someone had stood up to make a speech [in the N u r Mosque], but he was not allowed and was asked to sit down. In their opinion, this caused the person too much of humiliation. My point is that there would have been no harm at all even if he had been beaten on the spot. The reason being that he failed to recognize the need of a Khalifah appointed by God. The person must have later learnt that it was in fact Nurud-D i n, the Khalifatul Masih I ra , who had safeguarded his honour. As soon as he closed his eyes from the world, this man suffered disrepute. This proves that the need for a Khalifah is always urgent. He is not needed seven or eight months after the demise of the earlier Khalifah. As for me, at that time, I really did not know who had stood up to make the speech. Having come out of the mosque, someone told me that there was a man who said that Qadian was a hospital and all who lived there were sick. I asked him why the person had made such a comment. He replied that it was because when Maulav i Muhammad Ali stood up to speak, he was denied permission to do so, and that this caused him [Maulav i Muhammad Ali] a lot of embarrassment. That was the moment when I really came to know about the incident. Moreover, even if I had come to know about it at the time it was taking place, what right did I have to stop someone from preventing them from speaking on the subject? And what was the relationship of the people with me at that time that they would have paid any attention to what I might possibly have said. In fact, no one had yet been chosen as Imam by then.