Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page 41
Khilafat-i-Ahmadiyyah and the Pledge of Allegiance to Khilafat 41 My successor should be righteous, popular, learned and of good conduct. He should exercise forbearance towards the old and new friends of the Promised Messiah as. I have been the well-wisher of all of them so should he be. The public teachings of the Holy Qur’ a n and h ad i th should be continued. Greetings of peace. ( al- H akm , March 7, 1914, p. 5) He wrote this testament in his last illness and asked Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i to read it three times and asked him to confirm it. The will that he left behind relating to his successor also clearly demonstrates that Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra believed in khil a fat by an individual and believed that this is the only way that the traditions set by the righteous khulaf a’ can be preserved; he admonished that the same be adopted after his demise. Sayings—up to the Second Khilafat— of Those Who Did Not Take the Pledge of Khilafat 1) It is narrated by Hadrat Maulav i Sayyed Sarwar Sh a h (may Allah be pleased with him) that: On May 27th, 1908, on the demise of the Promised Messiah as , Khw a j a Kam a l-ud-D i n, Mirz a Ya‘q u b Baig, and Dr. Sayyed Muhammad Husain Sh a h arrived from Lahore to Qadian. Khw a j a Kam a l-ud-D i n made a very touching speech to the effect that: A Caller came from Allah, who called people towards God. We responded to his call and gathered around him. Now he has returned to his God and has left us behind. The question is: What should we do now?