Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 222
ILLNESS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 222 I had intended that if I was spared I would admonish you this year. I had never conceived that I would be the Spiritual Head of a community, but when God willed it He made me one suddenly. You are office-bearers in the community and no doubt you are often faced with difficulties. Someone may feel why was he not made an office-bearer, and nurse rancour on that account. My own attitude is that if, on the death of the Promised Messiah as , his infant daughter Amatul H af iz had been chosen to succeed him, I would have been the first to swear allegiance to her and would have obeyed her as I had obeyed her father, in the certainty that God’s promises would be fulfilled at her hands also. My purpose in saying this is that one must not entertain such aspirations. My first admonition is, and I beg you in the name of Allah to take it to heart, that in the face of difficulties keep in mind the divine directions! Avoid dissension lest you falter and your strength depart from you. Be steadfast; surely Allah is with the steadfast (8:47). Allah being the Creator of man’s nature knew that there would be dissension; so He directed: Be steadfast; Allah is with the steadfast. Thus, in case of a difference with an office-bearer, be steadfast. Allah will be with the one who is steadfast for the sake of His pleasure. I am entitled to admonish you. Having covenanted to obey me in all good matters, I call upon you to obey me in this: Avoid dissension. Whenever you are confronted with dissension, fall down in prostration before God that you