Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 90
90 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH who will resolve the disputes of the people, and to whom will they turn for their complaints? There never is a fixed time for any disturbance. It is possible that it may happen tonight. As a result, we should dismiss the proposition that the Khalifah should not be elected but after five months. However, we should discuss who the Khalifah should be. ” I even assured Maulaw i Muhammad Ali that I, along with my fellows, were ready to pledge Bai‘at to any person from his side. Maulaw i Sahib argued that it was a complicated matter and asked me to ponder over it before its discussion the next day. Then we departed. A Tract of Maulaw i Muhammad Ali That night when I woke up for Tahajjud Prayer, Bh a ‘ i Abdur Rahman Qadiani gave me a tract and told me that it was distributed among those Ahmadis who were coming from outside Qadian. When I read it, I found that it was written by Maulaw i Muhammad Ali. In it, he had stressed that Khilafat should not be continued any longer. He added that he took the Bai‘at of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra as a spiritual mentor, “ P i r ”, and not as a Khalifah. It was also written that there could be an Am i r of the Jam a ‘at, but his obedience should not be mandatory on the Jam a ‘at, and such an Am i r should not declare non- Ahmadis as kafir [infidel], and he should be above forty years of age. The real purpose behind these conditions was that if a Khalifah was to be made, it