Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 247
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I FINAL ADMONITIONS 247 Listen. I had never any desire that I should become Khal i fa. Before I became a disciple of Hadrat Mirza Sahib as , I dressed as I dress today. I have kept company in a situation of honour with the high and the mighty dressed in the same manner. After I became the disciple of Hadrat Mirza Sahib as I made no change in my mode of life. After his death God did as He willed. It had never crossed my mind that I would be Khal i fa , but God so willed it out of His wisdom that He made me your Imam and Khal i fa , and made those whom you consider entitled to the Khilafat obedient to me. Now who are you to object? If you must find fault, go and find fault with God, but beware of the chastisement for such impertinence and disrespect. I do not flatter any one, I do not desire even to be greeted by any one. I do not need your offerings and your provisions. May God save me from entertaining even the idea of seeking for them. God Almighty has bestowed hidden treasures upon me, of which no man nor creature has any knowledge. My wife and children do not depend upon any of you. God provides for them. What can you provide for any one? Allah is Self-Sufficient; it is you who are needy (47:39). He who is present should listen carefully, and should convey it to those who are not present, that the idea that those entitled to the Khilafat have been deprived of it is the notion of the Raf di s , and must be shunned. God Almighty has made Khal i fa with His own hand one whom He deemed entitled to the Khilafat. He who opposes him is false and rebellious. Be angels and submit and obey; be not like Ibl i s.