Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 205
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 205 After a while the visitor realises that he is the one whom his eyes were seeking, and he wonders afresh at this spectacle of the Khilafat in practice. Our Khal i fa , who is our leader, is simplicity itself and observes no ceremony. He speaks to every one in such manner that the person addressed conceives that he is singled out for his affection and attention. But that is not so. He has the same sympathy and affection for every one. Both indoors and outdoors he is simplicity personified; his food is simple, his dress is simple. That which distinguishes him from his fellow men is his majestic and shining countenance. His time is all spent in ministering to his fellow beings and servicing the faith. " 86 Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra dedicated his house in Bhera for the purposes of a mosque for the Ahmadiyya community. Some of the neighbours denounced this wholly beneficent project as a mischievous design. Thereupon he addressed the following communication to the leading divine among them: "Hadrat Maulaw i Sahib ra , this humble one has always abhorred mischief from the bottom of his heart, so that no idea of mischief ever finds its way into it. I affirm out of personal knowledge that mischief was repugnant to my father and my grandfather. Allah, the Compassionate and Beneficent, knows the truth; who else would know it? You have not been in my company, or in the company of my brothers. They were not given to mischief. Praise be to Allah that, so far as I know,