Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 160
STATUS OF KHALIFA Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 160 XIII STATUS OF KHAL I FA Simultaneously with the institution of the Khilafat currency began to be given to the notion that the office of the Khal i fa was purely spiritual and that for the purpose of the regulation of the community and the administration of its affairs the S adr Anjuman was the successor of the Promised Messiah as. The S adr Anjuman was a self-renewing body. By its rules, which were approved on the recommendation of Khaw a ja Kam a l-ud-D i n, a vacancy among the members of the Anjuman , arising from the death or resignation of a member, was filled by nomination by a majority of the remaining members. So that, once as many as eight members, out of a total of fourteen, found themselves in accord with each other, they formed a majority which could perpetuate itself by filling every vacancy by nominating a like-minded person. At the time of the demise of the Promised Messiah as , there was such a group in the Anjuman , the prominent ones in which were Maulaw i Muhammad ‘Al i , Khaw a ja Kam a l-ud-D i n, Shaikh Ra h matull a h, Dr. Sayyid Muhammad H usain and Dr. Mirz a Ya‘q u b Baig, the last four belonging to Lahore. The President was Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra and some of the other members were Sayyid Muhammad A h san, Sahibz a da Mirz a Bashir-ud-Din Ma h m u d Ahmad, Nawab Muhammad ‘Al i Kh a n and Khal i fa Rash i d-ud- d i n, Khaw a ja Kam a l-ud-D i n was Secretary. When Hadrat Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra became Khalifatul Masih , a somewhat anomalous situation