Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 263
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I FINAL ADMONITIONS 263 Accursed is one who seeks to awaken a sleeping calamity. The rejoinder was set out in two pamphlets Khilafat Ahmadiyya , published on November 23, and I z h a r-e- H aq i qat published on November 28, 1913. It proved most effective as a complete rebuttal of the scandalous, slanderous and fallacious allegations made in the offending tracts and fully safeguarded the community against the mischief that the tracts were designed to stir up. When Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was seriously ill after his fall from a mare he saw in a dream that someone had put a rupee in his pocket. He interpreted this as meaning that a son would be born to him. The dream was fulfilled on November 18, 1913, when he was blessed with a fifth son whom he named ‘Abdull a h. The Annual Conference of 1913 was held on December 25-27. The attendance was much larger than at any previous Conference. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , in the course of his address, observed: "The fulfilling of covenants is a binding obligation. I invite your attention to one of your covenants, so that you may reflect how far are you fulfilling it. That is the covenant of obedience you have made with me. Then there are those miserable ones among you who say: What is the Khal i fa ? He is a dotard. Observe, listen and remember that Allah, the Glorious, has Himself made me Khal i fa , and I am not dependent upon any of you for anything. I have prayed to be safeguarded against the consequences of advancing age, and He-has safeguarded me. He has bestowed upon me the