Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 80
80 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH and the hay was set on fire. I jumped into the fire and extinguished it quickly, but the tips of a few rails were burnt away in the meantime. I wrote my dream to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. He looked at me and said that the dream had already been fulfilled. I asked him for details. He said that M i r Muhammad Is ha q had given him some questions in writing which he had sent to other chapters of the Jam a ‘at outside Qadian, and he thought that it would give way to a grave crisis. Even then, I could not find out the type of questions put forth by M i r Muhammad Is ha q. Afterward, I inquired from my friends about those questions, and they told me the questions were related to the subject of Khilafat. Those questions created a great disturbance in the Jam a ‘at, and answers to those questions started coming in from all sides. At that time, the way these people [those against Khilafat] tried to deceive the Jam a ‘at was evident from the fact that they continuously tried to convince the Jam a ‘at that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra held the same view as they did. They would say that they were grateful to God that this question was raised in the lifetime of a very selfless person, and had it been raised later, it would have created a great turmoil. Some of them would say that it was good that many Companions ra of the Promised Messiah as were still alive, and that they were about to decide that the true Successor of the Promised Messiah as was the Anjuman. In short, they tried their best to convince the Jam a ‘at that (God