Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 243
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I FINAL ADMONITIONS 243 readily agreed to do. He went to Lahore on June 15 and performed the ceremony the same afternoon after a brief address in the course of which he said: "My master and my benefactor had promised Shaikh Sahib that he would lay the foundation of his building with his own hand, but it was God’s design that his promise should be carried out by a servant of his. Shaikh Sahib wrote to me that I should come over for the purpose. I am not well and suffer from pain in some of my limbs, but I was eager to fulfil the word of my beloved master. Several new structures have been erected and are being erected around this plot, but we have a special interest in this proposed structure, both personal and communal. The personal interest is that the late Hadrat Mirza Sahib as had promised to lay its foundation, and a servant of his should carry out the promise. The communal interest is that our community has also a share in this building. The members of the community should pray earnestly that the ultimate result should be good and the dwellers in this building and those who manage it should be righteous and love virtue. I have said that the whole community has an interest in this building. I hope that all of you will pray earnestly that Allah may be pleased to bless it and that the children of Shaikh Sahib ra , who loves us, may love us like him. I shall now lay one brick with prayers, and thereafter Sahibz a da Mirz a Ma h m u d Ahmad ra , Bash i r Ahmad ra and Shar i f Ahmad ra and Nawab Muhammad ‘Al i Kh a n ra should each lay one brick with prayers. " 109