Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 242
FINAL ADMONITIONS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 242 such that if I keep sitting, my feet begin to ache; I stand up to address you because the Holy Prophet sa delivered his addresses standing. Then listen to me for the sake of God, as I convey to you His command, not mine: Take fast hold, all together, of the rope of Allah, and be not divided. 107 Talking to a patient on June 11, 1912, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra said: "In every profession a programme can be laid down, except in the profession of medicine. A builder can undertake to complete a structure within a specific period; a clerk can promise to prepare a statement in so many days; a tailor can say he will deliver a suit on a certain day; but a physician cannot say he would cure a patient in a certain period of time, though some stupid physicians sometimes make such a claim. A good physician does not venture to make a claim like that. I sometimes procure medicines from China, but I am so careful that I have not yet tried on a patient any of several medicines which I have obtained after great effort and at a high cost, because no physician has yet told me the result of his own experiment with them or the method of their use. I never prescribe herbs or medicines which are not easily procurable. " 108 Shaikh Ra h matull a h ra of Lahore had been promised by the Promised Messiah as that he would lay the foundation of a building he was contemplating erecting in Lahore, but the Promised Messiah as passed away before the occasion arose. In June 1912, Shaikh Ra h matull a h ra requested Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra to carry out the Promised Messiah’s as promise, which he