Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 256
FINAL ADMONITIONS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 256 "When the worldly ones said to me: We have made you our chief, what should be your monthly allowance? I turned to God and supplicated: Lord, Thou hast never made me dependent upon anyone. Wilt Thou now, when I am approaching my end, make me dependent upon Thy creatures! He has been most gracious to me, and has provided for me whence I could not conceive of. All I ask of you is: Give your faith priority over the world; shun greed, deceit and mischief. " 118 December 27 was a Friday. In the course of his sermon Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra observed: "This mosque (Masjid N u r) bears my name, but it is small. It should be enlarged, but for the propagation of virtue. Establish a school in it, for teaching the Holy Quran. The Ta‘l i mul Islam School has a good building, receives a grant from government and is well looked after; but no one looks after Madrassa Ahmadiyya , which is neglected. I drew attention to it, and a committee was set up, but nothing practical came of it. " 119 Ha fi z Raushan ‘Al i ra , the principal pupil of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , stated that the latter had noted down in a note book some of the benefits he had derived from his residence in Qadian. One of them was: "Before moving to Qadian I had made every effort to win over at least one friend who should love me solely for the sake of Allah, and I spent thousands of rupees in this quest, but I did not succeed. When I came to Qadian God Almighty bestowed on me a whole company of