Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 156
KHALIFATUL MASIH Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 156 and the courses of study in the theological seminary will require my approval. I undertake this responsibility solely for the sake of Allah, Who has ordained: Let there be from among you a body of persons who should enjoin good and forbid evil (3:105). Remember, all good proceeds from accord. A leaderless people is dead. " 57 As soon as he finished speaking, all present, who had arrived from far and near and who numbered about 1200, urged him with one voice: "We offer you our pledge. We shall obey your orders. You are our Am i r and the Successor of our Messiah as. " They had been occupied with tearful supplications for guidance and were much relieved to find that they now had a spiritual leader once more in the person of Hadrat Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra. All of them swore allegiance to him in his capacity of Khalifatul Masih I. The pledge was worded as follows: "I bear witness that there is no god except Allah, the One, Who has no associate; and I bear witness that Muhammad sa is His servant and His Messenger (repeated three times). This day I take the pledge of spiritual allegiance at the hand of N u r-ud-D i n ra accepting all the conditions prescribed by the Promised Messiah as for the pledge; and promise particularly that I shall strive to study and listen to the Holy Quran, the Sunna and the True Hadith and to act in conformity to them; and shall be ever ready to devote myself and my belongings towards the propagation of Islam according to my capacity and my means; and shall be careful in arranging for the payment of