The Noble Son — Page 49
HAZRAT MAULANA JALAL-UD-DIN SHAMS RA 49 that a time would come when the late Hazrat Mirza Sultan Ahmad, would also, like the Promised Messiah’s as [other] three sons, become his fourth son in a spiritual sense. Thus, the three mature sons, through whom the Promised Messiah’s as progeny was to spread, would become four. Is this not wonderful that such a son who did not perform Bai ’ at at the hand of his father, and then also did not enter the Community in the time of Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih I ra , that same individual ultimately became ready to perform Bai ’ at at the hand of his younger brother. And the younger brother, by accepting his initiation, turned three physically and spiritually related sons into four. And in this way, through Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II aba by three sons becoming four, his being the Musleh Mauood became as clear as the bright midday sun. Then it is also wonderful that Allah the Almighty, in His perfect wisdom, in order to complete the argument against the deniers of Khilafat, in 1916 had this very matter published ahead of time in their own newspaper, Paighaam-e-Sulh. And the occasion for this came about thus, that in 1915-16 some essays of the late Hazrat Mirza Sultan Ahmad, were published in Paighaam-e-Sulh. Upon reading those, Sheikh Muhammad Jan of Wazirabad wrote a letter to the editor of Paighaam-e-Sulh which was published in the 3 February 1916 edition and it read as follows: ‘Reading an essay of Janab Khan Bahadur Mirza Sultan Ahmad, Additional Judge and Magistrate Lahore, titled Meeladun-Nabi