Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 201
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 201 About the same time it came to his notice that a certain person had affirmed that contributions collected from the community were not employed towards the promotion of their declared purposes, but were diverted towards the achievement of selfish objectives. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra replied in detail to the specific objections raised by the critic, and went on to admonish him: "Mere fault-finding has never done any one any good. There are the Christians who defamed all the Prophets from Adam as to the Holy Prophet sa , peace be on all of them. The Jews from the beginning and the Muslims during the last thirteen centuries have been refuting them. Has that made any difference to the Christians? Then the Shias have been running down the companions of the Holy Prophet sa and those Muslims who followed after them and the great men of the faith. Bukh a r i has related that Hadrat Usm a n ra was criticised in the presence of Ibn ‘Umar ra. Then the mantle of fault-finding fell upon the Aryas. Has any Muslim been able to stop them? Then follow not in the footsteps of the Christians and Shias and Aryas. That path is very dangerous and rough and harmful. We teach Islam, with the capacity bestowed by Allah, as the Holy Prophet sa taught it. " 84 The Ta‘l i mul Islam High School, Qadian was started in January 1898, and was making good progress. The School and its hostel were both located in the town and were housed in unpretentious sun- baked brick structures. In the very beginning of the Khilafat , need had been felt of erecting suitable spacious buildings for the school and hostel, together