Khalifatul-Masih I

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Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 149

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS DURING KHILAAFAT 149 funds provided personally by Hazrat Khalifatul- Masih Ira. Later, he also built a well to provide clean water. In 1909, Hazrat ra appointed Maulawi Muhammad Alira to take charge of the English translation of the Holy Quran. Hazrat ra would supervise and dictate notes to him in Urdu, which Maulawi Muhammad Alira translated into English. The work was completed three days before the death of Hazrat ra. Maulawi Muhammad Alira took the notes to Lahore. Sadly, he later broke away from the Jama'at and made changes to the translation to suit his own ideas and published it under his own name. Hazrat ra laid the foundation of Noor Mosque in Qadian after the Fajr Prayer on 5 March 1910, and delivered a speech on the subject of mosques. In the same year, he also laid the foundation stone of the magnificent building of Ta'leemul-Islam High School. In February