Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 72
SEEKER AND SOUGHT Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 72 "In blessed Mecca, I encountered the most pious and God-fearing Sayyid H usain, and met the revered Shaikh Muhammad Khazraj i. In Medina I had the honour of being in the company of my master the great Shaikh ‘Abdul Ghan i Mujaddad i. I esteemed all of them as righteous and virtuous personages. May Allah reward them for their kindness to me. Amen. They ranked high as learned and pious divines, but they did not stand up to the enemies of Islam, nor did they strive to repel and remove their doubts. They remained engaged in worship in their retreats, and supplicated their Lord in solitude. "I did not find any of the divines occupied with expounding the true message of Islam to Christians, A ryas, Br a hmus, atheists, philosphers, agnostics and other opponents of Islam. On the other hand, I discovered that in India more than a million Muslim students had abandoned the study of religious subjects, and had taken up with Western subjects and languages, and preferred the company of non- Muslims to that of Muslims. "More than sixty million pamphlets, journals and books have been published in opposition to Islam, yet we hear contemporary Shaikhs and their followers affirm that it is contrary to the practice of eminent men of the faith to invite people to the acceptance of Islam and to hold debates with the opponents of Islam. Most of our divines are not even aware of the true state of affairs. The utmost reach of our research scholars is that the whole of their time is taken up in discussing such futile and almost