Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 148
KHALIFATUL MASIH Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 148 Now before his departure for Lahore he occupied himself with supplications seeking guidance in respect of his contemplated journey, and requested his friends to help him with their prayers. He told his elder daughter, Nawab Mub a rak a Begum, that he had to make an important decision and would appreciate her helping him with her prayers. Next day she told him that she had prayed earnestly and had seen in her dream Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra seated in an upper room holding a book in his hand. He said to her: This book contains revelations received by Hadrat Sahib as concerning me. I am Ab u Bakr ra. The Promised Messiah as told her not to mention her dream to her mother, and made preparations to proceed on his journey to Lahore. The party left Qadian on 27th April, 1908, and stopping in Bat a la for a couple of days, arrived in Lahore on 29th April. The Promised Messiah as took up his residence in Khaw a ja Kam a l-ud-D i n’s house in Ahmadiyya Buildings, on Brandreth Road, but after a few days moved into the adjoining house of Dr. Sayyid Muhammad H usain in the same building. As his stay in Lahore became somewhat prolonged he sent for Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra and certain other divines from Qadian. On 17th May, a number of prominent Muslims were invited to meet the Promised Messiah as at lunch, and he delivered an address to them expounding the basis and nature of his claim, and seeking to remove misunderstandings concerning it. He was listened to with deep interest, and some of those present urged him to deliver a public address in Lahore, so that the general public could derive benefit from his wisdom. In pursuance of this suggestion he started writing an address which he called Paigh a m-e- S ul h (Message of