Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 312
CLOSING SCENE Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 312 contemplate in wonderment the spiritual blaze whose flame has melted my frozen emotions into shedding tears of love. The honoured personality of N u r-ud-D i n is now hidden from our physical eyes, but its footprints continue clearly discernible on the format of the universe and serve as our guide to the mansion of steadfastness. May Divine grace and mercy shed the perfume of amber on his dust. " This is a very brief record of the multifarious and high achievements of that outstanding personality Ha fi z Haji H ak i m Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n, Khalifatul Masih I ra. Considerations of space have stood in the way of a detailed exposition. But one aspect of his great service to Ahmadiyyat, Islam and humanity needs to be stressed. The Holy Quran had announced that in the latter days the people of the Book would make common cause against Islam and would seek to bring about its ruin, but that God would frustrate their designs and would make Islam triumphant over all other faiths (9:30-33). This triumph was to be achieved through the Promised Messiah as , not by the sword but by the wielding of spiritual weapons. The Promised Messiah as appeared and, under divine direction, accumulated an armoury of those weapons, and demonstrated how they were to be employed to win the hearts of mankind to the service of Islam. He pointed out that he had been sent to pioneer the process of the triumph of Islam and to furnish the weapons by the use of which Islam would be revived by the Movement founded by him, under the guidance of his spiritual Successors. He said he had sown the seed, which would now sprout and grow into a tree with its branches spreading out wide, and that no one