Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 285
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I PERSONAL REMINISCENCES 285 Muslim India was dropped from its name and it continued to be published for many years as Islamic Review. Our conversation generally turned on Islam and Ahmadiyyat in which Khaw a ja Sahib took the lead. I thus gained insight into some matters of which I might otherwise have remained ignorant. On one occasion, for instance, he remarked: "On the death of the Maulaw i ra (he often referred to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra familiarly and affectionately as the Maulaw i ) there is bound to be trouble with regard to the choice of his successor. Now let us see. There is Ma h m u d (meaning Sahibz a da Mirz a Bash i r- ud-D i n Ma h m u d Ahmad ra ) but he is only a stripling; and there is Muhammad ‘Al i , he is hypersensitive, begins to cry over every little thing. As for myself, I suffer from the failing that I cannot restrain myself from blurting out the truth in season and out of season!" Unfortunately, my experience of him had been that sometimes I had wished that he had given proof of being so afflicted. But I imagined that he had perhaps a concept of truth which was different from mine. On the question of the succession I reminded him that his concern was both premature and needless. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra had repeatedly affirmed that when the time came God Himself would determine and raise his successor. Khaw a ja Sahib was once deeply distressed by observing a scene which recalled to his mind his dream in which he felt he was about to be beheaded. His distress was so terrifying that not knowing its cause, I became concerned. When, after a while, he regained emotional control he related his dreams to me.