Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 136
WISE COUNSELLOR Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 136 idol cannot be expected to be grateful to a human benefactor. " 50 On February 11, 1906, the Promised Messiah as received a revelation: "There will be consolation concerning the order that had been made relating to Bengal. " It was published immediately and was ridiculed and scoffed at by his opponents, but it was strikingly fulfilled in 1911, when the cancellation of the partition of Bengal was announced on the occasion of the Coronation Durbar of King George V held in Delhi. In June 1907, someone wrote to Maulaw i N u r- ud-D i n ra raising certain queries: 1. Have those who do not believe in the Promised Messiah as the same status as that of those who do not believe in the Holy Prophet sa ? 2. How should the Hadith: 'There is no Prophet after me;' be construed? 3. If a Prophet can arise in Islam why were Ab u Bakr and others not Prophets? He wrote back in reply: 1. The Holy Quran says: "Of the Messengers some have We exalted above others (2:254). " If there is not equality of status between Messengers, there would not be such equality of status as you have in mind between those who do not believe in them. You may reflect that he who disbelieves in the Messiah of the Kh a tamal Ambiy a ’ is guilty of greater wrong than one who disbelieves in the Messiah of Moses. The Holy Quran affirms that the believers make no distinction between the Messengers of