Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 260
FINAL ADMONITIONS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 260 possess high courage, should be persevering, should have constant recourse to prayer, should have fulfilled Thy pleasure, and should have knowledge of the Holy Quran and of true Hadith. Then bestow upon him a community whose members should also possess all those qualities. Lord, if there are to be trials make them steadfast, and burden them not with that which they have not the strength to bear (2:287); and foster them as I have supplicated. I feel Allah will grant my wish. Do you also supplicate in the same vein, and do you also become helpers in the cause of Allah. " 122 The following day being Friday, he exhorted the congregation in the second part of his sermon as follows: "I have nothing to stress but prayer. Be constant in supplication. I urge you to it for your own benefit. I desire nothing from you, not even that you should stand up to show your respect for me. Were I to expect anything from you, I would be guilty of gross ingratitude to God. Will He who has bestowed His bounties upon me throughout, beyond my expectation, now make me dependent upon you in my old age for my few remaining days? … His continuous bounties entail that I should be wholly His. All my faculties are a bounty of His, all the honour and respect that I enjoy are also His gifts. " 123 It is a surprising fact that all the admonitions of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra urging accord and unity among the members of the Movement, all his warnings of the dire consequences of division and dissension