Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 154
KHALIFATUL MASIH Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 154 But if you insist on pledging your allegiance to me then note carefully that this pledge means total commitment. On one occasion Hadrat Sahib as indicated to me indirectly to think no more of my home. From that moment all my honour and all my thinking became centered on him, and I never thought of home. Thus pledging allegiance is a solemn and grave matter. He who takes the pledge subordinates all his freedom and the flights of his fancy to the will of another, that is why Allah, the Exalted, has named man His servant. It is difficult for an individual to discharge the personal responsibilities entailed by this servitude, how and to what degree can he assume and discharge such responsibilities on behalf of another? Having regard to the diversity of temperaments a high resolve is needed to bring about accord. I always wondered at the works of Hadrat Sahib. He enjoyed indifferent health and yet carried such a heavy burden comprising diverse types of activities. But he enjoyed continuous divine support, and I, almost of his age, find myself empty. It is Divine bounty that had made us all brethren. Nothing can be achieved without His grace. I wish to draw your attention to a great event in the history of Islam. In the time of Ab u Bakr ra the whole of Arabia, with the exception of Mecca, Medina and one or two other places, was carried away in a revolt. The Meccans also hovered over the edge, but he rallied them with the admonition: 'You were the last to believe, why do you wish to be the first to renege?' His daughter ‘ A ’isha ra said: 'If the mountain that has fallen upon my father had fallen upon