Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 180
STATUS OF KHALIFA Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 180 I affirm with all the emphasis at my command and call God to witness that I shall not put off the robe with which He has invested me. He has appointed me for a purpose. If you and the whole world should oppose me I would pay no heed. Fulfil your covenant and you will soon see how far you advance and how successful you are. I have to say these things because they need to be said. He has assured me that He will support me. I do not call on you to renew your pledge. Hold fast to your first pledge, lest you are involved in hypocrisy. If you observe any deviation in me try to correct me through prayer, but do not entertain the notion that you can instruct me in the true meaning of a verse of the Holy Quran, or of a Hadith, or of a passage out of the writings of the Promised Messiah as. If any of you should think that I am vile, let him supplicate that God may remove me from the world, and then see on whom does the supplication recoil. Another misunderstanding is about the connotation of the expression Ma‘r u f (good). It is said that the pledge binds them to obedience only in that which they consider Ma‘r u f. The Holy Quran uses this expression with reference to the obedience due to the Holy Prophet sa also (60:130). Then have they drawn up a list of his shortcomings? In the same way, the Promised Messiah as has laid down obedience in that which is Ma‘r u f among the conditions of the pledge. I am expounding all this to safeguard you against error. Then it is said that I meet all and sundry too freely. My short answer to those who have