Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 144
KHALIFATUL MASIH Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 144 martyrs in the cause of Allah, and I reflected on the supplications made in the sitting posture of the S al a t : Peace be upon thee, Great Prophet sa , and the mercy of Allah and His blessings; and: Peace be upon us and upon all righteous servants of Allah: and in my mood of eagerness I made a bargain with Allah, as He has said: Allah has purchased of the believers their persons and their belongings in return for the promise that He will admit them to the Garden of His pleasure (9:111). In this verse Allah describes Himself as a purchaser, a merchant. A believer having committed himself wholly to Allah, he must take care that he should not spend his life nor his belongings without a licence from Allah. In pursuance of this purpose, I became diligent in calling down peace and blessings of Allah upon the Holy Prophet sa. Then it occurred to me that I should make a large number of friends, for whom I should appoint a distinctive emblem, so that we might glorify Allah much and remember Him much. So Allah be praised that in accord with my limited intelligence and dealings I made friends from among the members of the Ahmadiyya Community—which is a community that abhors association of partners with Allah and making innovations in the faith and believes sincerely in: There is no God except Allah and Muhammad sa is His Messenger; and by conforming to the practice of the Holy Prophet sa qualifies as Sunni and owing allegiance to an Imam as must be deemed to be a Jam a ‘at —those who are men of good will,