Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 73
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I SEEKER AND SOUGHT 73 blasphemous questions as the possibility or impossibility of God affirming a falsehood, so that they have no time left to silence the opponents of Islam and to frustrate their designs. "We must, however, acknowledge with gratitude the work done in this field by the great Shaikh Ra h matull a h, Dr. Waz i r Kh a n, Imam ‘Abul Man su r of Delhi, Sayyid Muhammad ‘Al i of Cawnpore, the author of Tanz i hul Qur’ a n , and others like them. May Allah bless their efforts, and He is the best Appreciator. But all their effort has been directed against only one section of the opponents of Islam, and it has not been fortified with heavenly signs and divine predictions. I was most eager to meet the perfect man who should be unique among his contemporaries, and should step out well equipped into the field in support of the faith to silence its opponents. When I returned home from the H ij a z, I was most perplexed. I went about eagerly in my search, awaiting the call of the righteous. "In this situation I received intimation of the advent of the most exalted personage, the great learned divine, the Reformer as of the century, the Mahdi and Messiah as of the age, author of Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya. I hastened to him to see for myself, and I realised at once that he was the Promised Arbiter as , and it was he who had been appointed by Allah, the Exalted, for the revival of the faith. I immediately responded to the call of Allah, and fell into prostration in gratitude for this great bounty. 'Praise be to Thee, Most Merciful, and humble