The Need for the Imam — Page 49
Darürat-ul-Imam 49 with me, there is a profound scholar of great excel- lence, by the name of Maulawi Hakīm Hafiz Al-Hāj Nūr-ud-Din Sahiba. Just as he possesses a collection of virtually all the commentaries of the Holy Quran, so is his heart a virtual storehouse of thousands of Quranic verities. If you have indeed been given the privilege to receive Bai'at, then do try and teach Maulawi Sahib the truths and verities contained in just one part of the Holy Quran. Were these people insane to have entered into Bai 'at at my hand, and to have rejected all other recipients of revelation? It would have been better for you if you had followed the example of Hadrat Maulawi Sahiba. Just reflect, is it for nothing that he has left his home and hearth and has come to me, and is living in a mud-house in great inconvenience? My worthy and dear friend- the recipient of revelation-had better remember that he is seriously mistaken if he thinks so. First of all if, by his spiritual power, he demonstrates before Had- rat Maulawi Sahiba a specimen of his own Quranic scholarship and, with its supernatural light, is able to receive Bai 'at from such a lover of the Holy Quran as Nūr-ud-Din, then I and all my Jama'at will be at his service. Is it possible for a person, merely with the help of a few dubious and mostly incorrect words of revelation, to consider himself the Imam of the age? My dear friend! there are many prerequisites