Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 147
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHALIFATUL MASIH 147 criticism advanced by non-Muslims, whereby we might discharge to some degree the obligation of enjoining good and forbidding evil, and our friends may be warned of the grave harm resulting from ill-thinking. " 55 This project was published in Al- H akam , Badr and Tash hi dhul Adhh a n , and Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra had 1400 cards printed in which its purpose was briefly set out. He had intended that once he had procured the adherence of 1400 friends to the project, the Promised Messiah as would be approached with the request to pray specially for the achievement of the purposes of the project, but events moved forward too rapidly to permit of this. Hadrat Ummul Mu’min i n had been ailing and suggested to the Promised Messiah as that they might go to Lahore for her to obtain competent medical advice. He was somewhat hesitant, as he had lately received warnings through revelations vouchsafed to him, of the imminent approach of his end. Towards the end of 1905, having been similarly warned that only a short span, two or three years, of his life was left, he had published his Testamentary Direction, offering his community the consolation that after his departure God would help them with the Second Manifestation of His Power, as had happened at the death of the Holy Prophet sa , when God had raised Ab u Bakr ra to rally the Muslims, who took effective measures to safeguard them against grave perils that confronted them in every direction. He also instituted the S adr Anjuman Ahmadiyya (the Central Ahmadiyya Association) for the purpose of regulating the administrative affairs of the Community, and appointed Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra its President.