The Devotion of Life — Page 271
271 Mir Muhammad Ishaq Sahib was heavily occupied in administrative matters and subsequently suffered from ill health and meanwhile, Hafiz Roshan Ali Sahib passed away, was there any hindrance at that time? At the time, Allah the Exalted instantly launched Maulana Abul Ata Sahib and Maulana Jalal Uddin Shams Sahib and the Community felt that they were the successors of the earlier ones. ” (Al Fazl 19 th November 1940) Huzur ra honoured these two scholars with the title ‘Khalid’. He said: “When there was opposition to the Khilafat of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , he said, ‘Do not be conceited, I have got ‘Khalids’ who will subdue you,’ although at the time he had no one but me; I was the only one who defended on his behalf, and contended with the objections. Do not think now that there are ‘Khalids’ no more. Now our Community has more ‘Khalids’ than before; we have Shams Sahib, Maulvi Abul Ata Sahib. There is Abdul Rahman Khadim Sahib. These people are of the calibre who can render the enemy speechless and they will, Insha’Allah. Allah the Exalted shall bless the might of their pens and their words to the utmost to the point where they shall smash the temple that the objections to Khilafat have erected to smithereens. ” (Al Fazl 15 th March 1957)