Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 207
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 207 We esteem your daughters as our own daughters. We ourselves are keen on conforming to the requirements of safeguarding the privacy of women; you need not be concerned on that score. This mosque has not been designed for causing injury and promoting discord, but as a last resort for the purpose of safeguarding ourselves against injury and maintaining order. You have purchased, without notice to us, a house of which we were joint owners. Is that not a step full of the possibility of mischief and not aimed at the maintenance of peace and order? Do reflect on: There is no god beside Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. We have not so designed the entrance to the mosque as to contravene the requirements of privacy. Do tell us what shall we do? You and your denouncements have excluded us from the mosque. Now that we design to convert our own house into a mosque you denounce us as mischief-makers. Is that Islam? Reflect and consult with a responsible Muslim and let me know. As for brotherhood, I leave it to you to pronounce justly upon that aspect. All I need to say is that you are acknowledged as Quraish i s , and we are what we are. Maulaw i Sahib ra , would any one throw away a large three-storied ancestral home? When we found no other way of safeguarding ourselves against mischief, injury and discord, we devised this method for the purpose of maintaining peace and order. Do you wish to disrupt our community, and to stop us from even mentioning the name of Allah in this