Khilafat-e-Rashidah — Page 206
206 KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH before him. Hafiz Roshen Ali ra was also sitting there. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra asked him to give those rupees to him after counting them. He gave the money to the person concerned as directed, received an acknowledgement, but destroyed it. Afterward we asked him what the amount was. He said, “it was exactly what the man had demanded”. Allah, the Almighty helped him in marvelous manners, and sometimes as a divine sign he was blessed with wealth. We considered it the blessings of his prayers. But some people believed that he knew alchemy. When Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra died, a hakim from Delhi came to me, and asked to meet me privately, and I agreed. He first talked in religious terms and praised that Allah, the Almighty had given my father a great honour, and he was the Messenger of Allah. He then added that the son of someone whom God makes a Messenger cannot possibly be a miser. He desired to get my help in some matter and requested me not to treat him miserly. I enquired about the matter. He told me that he was very fond of alchemy and had spent his whole life in pursuing it. He had come to know that Hadrat Maulaw i Sahib ra had a recipe of alchemy. Now, in my capacity as the Khalifah in his place, he must have told me about it. Then he requested me to tell him that recipe. I told him that he had not given me any recipe of alchemy. “How can it be so?” He said. “You are Khalifah in his place, and he did not tell you any recipe of alchemy”.