Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 258
FINAL ADMONITIONS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 258 no one good but God. Therefore, the Holy Prophet sa apprehending lest he should also be deified, added his being a servant and Messenger of Allah to the affirmation: There is no god besides Allah. The second aspect of Islam is compassion for God’s creatures. Zakat and the pilgrimage inculcate compassion for people, and the S al a t and fast instil compassion for oneself. There is great blessing in the fast. It trains a person in refraining from unlawful use of anything; for one who during the fast, gives up that which is lawful, will, believing in Muhammad sa surely refrain from that which he has declared unlawful. Thus the purport of the credo is to inculcate the Unity of God, and that Muhammad sa is His servant and Messenger, and that the S al a t , fast, Pilgraimage and Zakat have been instituted for the benefit of the individual as well as society at large. What benefit is there in sprinkling water over a person as a token of his having adopted a faith? Jesus as has said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. " 121 He concluded with a prayer for the convert and approved ‘Abdull a h as his name. In the autumn and winter of 1912-1913 Sahibz a da Mirz a Bashir-ud-Din Ma h m u d Ahmad ra went on a visit to Egypt and the H ij a z, during the course of which he also performed the Pilgrimage. He returned to Qadian on February 3, 1913. In the summer of that year he decided, with the approval of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih , to start the publication of a weekly paper, which the latter named Al-Fa d al. The first issue was published on June 19, 1913.