Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 165
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 164 You would have often noted that when I begin my sermon or I begin any speech or lecture, I always precede it with Kalima Shahadat (meaning, I bear witness that there is no one else worthy of worship except Allah, and I also bear witness that Muhammad sa is His Servant and Messenger). The idea of repeating this assertion was to make the people, who listen to me, to be a witness to my assertion that God has no partners or associates and that He is total and Supreme in His qualities, and that I am never shy of repeating this assertion for He is my beloved. The total, complete and unwavering trust of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra in his beloved God, made him rely completely on Him. Whenever and wherever he was in need of His beloved, He responded with the same love and always helped him in the hours of his trial. When a man is about to leave this world, it is customary on such occasions that he would summon his friends and relations and entrust his children to them. Maulana Sahib was in his last days, and yet, he was delivering Dars on the Book sent by his Beloved and told his son (Abdul Hayee): Now, we are going away. Whenever you face a difficulty or a problem, go and pray to God: "O God of Noor-ud-Deen, the way Thou helped Noor-ud-Deen, help me and assist me, and I am fully confident that my God will come to your help. " ( History of Ahmadiyyat , p. 596) His confidence and trust reflected in the above statement indicates his deep love for his Beloved. Once Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra came to the mosque to deliver the Dars , and during the Dars , he was overwhelmed with remembrances of the past bounties and favours that he had witnessed, and he was so completely absorbed in the scenario that flashed through his eyes that he told the people attending the Dars exactly what he saw ( Collection of Dars-ul-Qur'an by Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , p. 140-141):