Khilafat Centenary Souvenir 1908-2008 — Page 60
I Khilafat Centenary teachings of the Promised Messiah as. A typi c al day for Hadhrat Khal ifatul Ma s ih 1ra: Huzur ra led all the fi ve daily pra yers himself. After the Fajr prayer, he would first deliver a separate dars-e- Qur'an to women, followed by another dars, with individual attention to Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad and his fellow students. An hour or so would then be spent in examining his patients. Later there would be the general dars of the Holy Qur'an and Ahadith. The mail would be read , and Hadhrat Khalifatul Ma s ih I ra would provide directions on the response to each letter. Every letter was answered and he prayed for all those who requested so. The rest of the da y would be taken up by attending to his other patients, and meeting with officials of the Anjuman, missionaries and teachers. There was an evening dars-e-Qur'an as we ll. The l egacy of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih 1 ra : Th e greatest legacy of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra is the evergreen tree of Khilafat-e- Ahmadi yy a. He is the great rock, the foundation stone, upon which the edifice of our Khilafat, now in its fifth course, has been , and is being , built. He clearly recognized the need for continuing with the mission of the Promised Messiah as and understood that this could only be done by strengthening the 'Second Manifestation' of Allah's Will. Throughout his Khilafat there was a dishonest effort to assimilate the Community with the rest of the Muslims, to restrict the capacity of the Khalifa as only a titular head, and to have Sadr Anjuman Ahmadi yya run the Movement solely as a missionary society with emphasis on inter-religious debates and publishing books. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih Ira, on the other hand , insisted that nothing could be accomplished in the propagation of Islam and moral training of the members without infusing in them a spirit of holiness, and uniting them under the Khalifa, for whom Allah Himself has promised to be the guide. All his writings and sermon s as Kh alifa bear witness to this. He s ta y ed firmly on this message till the da y of his demise. He has left for all of us a great tradition of total obedience and dedication to the cause of Islam. He was a paragon of virtue to be emulated for his absolute faith in Allah and His grace. His example as a lifelong ph ysician w ho ne v er asked for a fee, and who worked till the e nd of his life, is also one worth y of being followed closely. His other legacy is his great love for the Hol y Qur 'an. At one time, nearly all Muslim translators of the Holy Qur ' an were his students, including Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad ra, Maulvi Muhammad AlY a, Maulvi Sher AlY a, Muhammad Zafrullah Khan ra, Malik Ghulam Farid ra , among other s. Throughout his life he continued with the commentar y of the Holy Qur'an on a daily basis. Some of these sessions were recorded and were published as supplements to the daily newspapers of Qadian ; they are now available under the title Haqaiq-ul- Furqan. Conclu si on For further reading, there are many books on the life of Hadhrat Maulvi Nooruddin ra. The first, Mirqat- ul- Yaqeen , by Akbar Shah Khan , also contains a dictated narrative. The biograph y published by