Truth About the Split — Page 238
238 with it began preparation for the morning service. There was some delay in the arrival of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. Friends of Khwaja Sahib were glad of the opportunity and availed themselves of it by addressing the people once more. I was in my house pacing the yard, waiting for the service to begin. Our house adjoins the mosque. The voice of Shaikh Rahmatullah Sahib reached my ear. He said, "God’s wrath! a few designing men want to ruin the Community by raising a stripling to the Khilafat. " My mind at the time was a total blank. I could not therefore see that myself was the stripling referred to. 1 continued to ponder over the words in amazement, and I could not guess their meaning. Subsequent events, however, demonstrated that his fears were not justified. Khulafa’ are not appointed by men. God however, had already resolved that one day this same stripling upon whom they looked with such contempt would become Khalifa and through him would be carried the message of the Promised Messiah as to the four corners of the earth. God had resolved to prove that He was All-Powerful, that He stood in no need of help from any quarter. These men who were trying to fight the Divine plan seem to have had an instinctive premonition of events, which had already been decreed by God. Thus, until the arrival of Hadrat