Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 237
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I FINAL ADMONITIONS 237 and wish to pull it away forcibly in their direction. On the other side you claim to be holding fast to this rope of Allah. Do not leave this claim without proof. Put forth all your combined strength firmly and hold fast to it, lest the opponents of Islam should pull it away from you. Holding fast to it means that you should make the Holy Quran your code and your guide. All aspects of your lives should be subordinated to it. All your affairs, every movement and stillness of yours should be regulated by this Holy Book of God, which is healing and light. I convey to you once more the command of Allah, listen to it and listen with attention. Hold fast, all together, to the rope of Allah and be not divided. Beware! Be not divided. Do you know what will be the consequence, if you are divided? This rope will slip from your hands, and you will lose all strength, as Allah, the Exalted has said: Avoid dissension, lest you falter and your strength depart from you (8:47). You will be disrupted, your strength will be frittered away and your enemies will triumph over you. 105 Harken! I am Khalifatul Masih ra , and God has made me Khal i fa. I had no desire at all to be Khal i fa , but now that God has invested me with this mantle, I intensely dislike all dissension. I do not wish you to be involved in dissension. I wish to eliminate all causes of dissension. You cannot conceive how the very idea of dissension in the community distresses me. You are not aware of this agony: you have no idea of it. I wish, and it all depends upon God’s grace, that I should not hear of any dissension or division among you, and that I