Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous

by Syed Hasanat Ahmad

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Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih and His Four Loves 165 What should I tell you and how should I tell you, I have been telling you for a long time the unending tales of the limitless bounties and favours of God on me, and I am not tired and I should not feel tired of telling these accounts over and over again how God has conferred upon me limitless number of favours. I read so much and so much in so many books from so many writers about the Oneness and the Unity of God that I am protected against all doubts. Therefore, when God chooses someone for favour, then all the worldly means are made sub- servient to him. At another place, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra simply raised the curtain from those high secrets by saying ( Hayaat-i-Noor , p. 518): Taqwa (fear of God) is the road that leads to complete love for God and makes him an object of God's love and then he finds a complete salvation from all worldly difficulties. A Muttaqi (one who fears God) is an object of God's love and he finds salvation from all trials and unlimited bounties flow to him and God accept the prayers of His man and the enemies of the Muttaqi face destruction and ruin. God unfolds the secrets of the unknown only to a Muttaqi. Man becomes recipient of all Divine favours once he is completely absorbed in His love. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra further stated ( Al-Badr , February 16, 1911, no. 11, p. 12): God has conferred upon me so much of His favours that it is difficult to count them and God has manifested Himself on many occasions and in many forms and my God has shown me so many blessings that had I the power and strength to recount them all one by one I would not be able to count them. To know what God is, is the ultimate destiny. Even today God told me, "It is because of the unending line of blessings and my unshakeable