Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 199
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 199 After the Friday Prayer service most of his time during the rest of the day is spent in prayers for the community of which we have cited a sample. God alone knows how, in what mood and in what moving phrases this shepherd of his flock supplicates his Lord on their behalf during the dark, silent and lonely hours of the night, when every one of them is fast asleep. May God accept his supplications and make us beneficiaries thereof, Amen. " 82 On 26th December, 1908, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra addressed the Annual Conference of the Movement for nearly three hours. He explained how his training started with: There is no god besides Allah; and how it progressed. He drew particular attention to the importance and blessings of prayer, high resolve, the Holy Quran and mutual cooperation. He then made a detailed exposition of faith and its numerous phases, basing himself on the verse: Allah has purchased of the believers their persons and their belongings (9:111). Incidentally he mentioned that, commenting on the death of the Promised Messiah as , the Curzon Gazette of Delhi had written that the Ahmad i s had been decapitated and had been left with a leader who could do nothing but recite the Quran to them in a mosque. On this he observed: "May God so ordain that I may keep reciting the Holy Quran to you. " He addressed the Conference again on the afternoon of 28th December. He chose the love of God as his theme. He first defined love and then proceeded to make an exposition of its diverse gradations. He then emphasised that the true object of love is the Being Whose beauty and beneficence excel those of all