Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 292
CLOSING SCENE Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 292 "The doctor from Lahore took a long time in examining me. The disease from which I am suffering is so easy to diagnose that when I am busy in my clinic and someone enters from the door and greets me, I know from his voice, without looking at him, that he suffers from this disease. " In view of his growing weakness, his physicians decided that he should be moved to the residence of Nawab Muhammad ‘Al i Kh a n ra , which was situated in a large garden outside the town and where he could be more comfortable. Nawab Sahib ra was most eager to welcome him and twice pressed his invitation upon him. At last he consented and the move was made on February 26. In the beginning of March, Dr. Sayyid Muhammad H usain visited Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , and in the course of conversation stressed the desirability of cooperation between Muslims of different denominations in the pursuit of common objectives, upon which Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra observed: "We have set an example of such cooperation in the matter of the promotion of the project of the Muslim University. Such co- operation is beneficent, but it is necessary to maintain our distinct identity. Progress is fostered by distinction. A general mingling destroys initiative and arrests progress. Besides, we cannot subordinate ourselves to those who reject our divinely commissioned Founder as. Then, if distinction is not maintained, enjoining good and forbidding evil are neglected. When a section is distinguished, there is opposition; and as opposition grows