Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 235
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I FINAL ADMONITIONS 235 XVI FINAL ADMONITIONS The Annual Conference of 1911 was held on December 26-29. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra addressed the Conference for two and a half hours on the afternoon of December 27. His text was: O ye who believe, be mindful of your duty to Allah to the utmost, in all respects, every moment of your lives, so that death, whenever it overtakes you, should find you in a state of complete submission to Him. Take fast hold, all together, of the rope of Allah, and be not divided. Call to mind the favour of Allah, which He bestowed upon you, when you were at enmity with each other and He united your hearts in love, so that, by His grace, you became as brethren. You were on the brink of a pit of fire and He rescued you from it. Thus does Allah explain to you His commandments that you may be rightly guided. Let there be from among you a party whose business it should be to invite to goodness, to enjoin equity and to forbid evil. It is they who shall prosper. Be not like those who became divided and created dissensions after clear proofs had come to them. It is they for whom there will be great punishment (3:103-106). " In the course of his address he laid stress on certain points which may be summarised as follows: