Khalifatul Masih I - IslamAhmadiyya - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

350 Pages·2006·1.75 MB·Indonesian

by  Muhammad Zafrulla Khan

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Hadrat Maulawi Nur-ud-Din
Khalifatul Masih I

by
Muhammad Zafrulla Khanra

2006
ISLAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATINS LIMITED
Hadrat Maulawi Nur-ud-Dinra
Khalifatul Masih I
by
Muhammad Zafrulla Khanra

First Published in UK by: The London Mosque
(Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddeen Khalifatul Masih 1)
Second Edition published in UK in 2006

© Islam International Publications Ltd
Published by
Islam International Publications Ltd
Islamabad
Sheephatch Lane
Tilford, Surrey
United Kingdom GU10 2AQ

Printed in UK at
Raqeem Press
Tilford, Surrey

ISBN: 1 85372 848 9
About the Author
Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khanra (1893-1985)
a companion of the Promised Messiahas; a man of
phenomenal intelligence and memory; a great
orator; a prolific writer and a great scholar of
comparative studies of religion was born to Ch.
Nasrullah Khan at Sialkot. He initiated into
Ahmadiyyat, alongwith his parents, at the most
blessed hands of the Promised Messiahas in 1904.
He was educated primarily at Municipal Board
School, and then American Mission High School.
Though indisposed, he secured first position in the
school in matriculation examination when he was
only fourteen years of age. He graduated (in first
grade) from Govt. College Lahore in 1911 and was
the first Indian student who topped London
University in LLB final in 1914. He started his
career as a lawyer at Sialkot in 1915. Though
young for his age and experience, he was elected as
a lecturer at Law College Lahore in 1919. He
started his political career with selection as a
member in Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1926. He
successfully pleaded the cause of Muslims with the
Indian Round Table Conference held in London in
1930, 1931 and 1932. He was elected as the
President of The Indian Muslim League in 1931. For
six years he remained member of the Governor-
General’s Executive Council of British India and
served in various fields such as health commerce,
archaeology, railways and law etc. During this
period he represented undivided India in numerous
conferences abroad and had the opportunity to put
forth the Two-Nation theory to numerous heads of
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states. It was owing to this that he always remained
among the reliable associates of Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinah.
He became Foreign Minister of Pakistan in
1947, and for many years led the Pakistan
delegation to the General Assembly of the United
Nations. He was President of the Seventeenth
Session of the General Assembly of the United
Nations. He crowned his already remarkable career
by sitting as judge of the International Court of
Justice at the Hague, Holland (1954-1961) first as
the Vice President (1958-1961) and then the
President from 1970 to 1973.
Among the corpus of Sir Zafrulla Khanra
include Translation of the Holy Quran, Riyad-us-
Salihin [a book of Ahadith] and Tadhkira [collection
of the revelations, dreams and kushuf i.e. Divine
visions of the Promised Messiahas]. He also
authored more than a dozen of books on various
topics of religious and political interest.
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CONTENTS
PUBLISHER'S NOTE...............................................V
FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR...........................IX
BACKGROUND.........................................................1
IN QUEST OF KNOWLEDGE..................................8
SOJOURN AT BHOPAL.........................................19
HIJAZ INTERLUDE................................................30
PHYSICIAN AT BHERA ........................................43
MAHARAJA’S PHYSICIAN...................................54
SEEKER AND SOUGHT.........................................70
MIGRATION............................................................85
IDEAL DISCIPLE....................................................93
EMINENT DIVINE................................................102
WISE COUNSELLOR ...........................................122
KHALIFATUL MASIH.........................................143
STATUS OF KHALIFA.........................................160
KHILAFAT.............................................................185
ILLNESS.................................................................215
FINAL ADMONITIONS........................................235
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES...........................268
CLOSING SCENE..................................................291
GLOSSARY............................................................316
INDEX ....................................................................318
REFERENCES........................................................335
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Publisher's Note
The biography of Hadrat Maulawi Nur-ud-Dinra,
the companion and the first successor, Khalifa, of the
Promised Messiahas was written by Sir Muhammad
Zafrullah Khanra and was published sometimes in the
eighties (no date of publication was given) in England
by the London Mosque, 16 Gressonhall Road, London
SW18. We are publishing the second edition of the
biography with a new typeset. The first eidition did not
have index and references (except those of the Holy
Quran). This edition is published with index and most
of the references have also been given. We found some
spelling and other minor mistakes which have been
corrected. However, the text has not been altered and
strictly follow the original edition. Another feature of
this edition is the transliteration of unfamiliar Arabic,
Persian or Urdu words. In this we have followed the
system of transliteration of Royal Asiatic Society,
which is given below.
The name of Muhammadsa, the Holy Prophet of
Islam, has been followed by the symbol sa, which is an
abbreviation for the salutation 'may peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him.' The names of other
prophets and messengers are followed by the symbol
as, an abbreviation for 'on whom be peace.' The actual
salutations have not generally been set out in full, but
they should nevertheless, be understood as being
repeated in full in each case. The symbol ra is used
with the name of the Disciples of the Holy Prophetsa
and those of the Promised Messiahas. It stands for Radi
Allahu ‘anhu/‘anha/‘anhum (May Allah be pleased
with him/with her/with them).
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FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised
Messiahas and Mahdi, Founder of the Ahmadiyya
Movementas died, after an illness extending over a few
hours, at Lahore, on May 26, 1908. He had received
repeated warnings of his fast approaching end, in the
divine revelations vouchsafed to him, over a period of
weeks. Nevertheless, the impact of the event, when it
happened, on the members of the Movement, was
shattering.
His bitter opponents breathed a sigh of relief,
and the more virulent ones expressed unseemly
jubilation, that a grave threat to some of their
cherished beliefs and doctrines, and the way of life to
which they had become addicted, had at last been
removed. They conceived that the Movement founded
by him would soon pass into the limbo of history, and
would be forgotten as an inconsequent ripple on the
surface of orthodox Islam.
The sober minded among the Muslims, though
not endorsing his claims, felt bereaved of a great
champion of Islam, whose death was an irreparable
loss. Even non-Muslims acknowledged and paid
tribute to his high scholarship, utter sincerity, and the
purity and righteousness of his life.
At that fateful hour in the history of the
Movement, of Islam, of religion and of mankind, before
his sacred remains were reverently committed to the
earth at Qadian, on May 27, his foremost and most
devoted disciple, Hadrat Maulawi Nur-ud-Dinra, an
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eminent divine, a great lover of the Holy Quran, an
outstanding and reputed physician, was acclaimed as
his spiritual Successor, and the members of the
Movement swore allegiance to him in his capacity of
Khalifatul Masih. In that capacity, as ordained by the
divine will, he was destined to perform the same role
as Hadrat Abu Bakrra, the first Successor of the Holy
Prophetsa of Islam, had been similarly destined to
perform at the time of a far graver crisis in the
fortunes of Islam and of mankind, thirteen hundred
years earlier. Divine grace enabled Hadrat Maulawi
Nur-ud-Dinra to perform that role so well, that by the
time of his death, in March 1914, the Movement,
which completed its first quarter century about then,
had been fully safeguarded against disruption and
disintegration. The test came immediately in the shape
of a challenge to the very institution of the Khilafat, by
a number of well-known prominent members of the
Movement, who claimed that they had the support of
ninety five percent of the members of the Movement.
They were soon undeceived. The bulk of the Movement
withstood and defied the challenge firmly, and the
Movement has since marched forward from triumph to
triumph under the wise and inspiring leadership and
fostering care of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II (1914-
1965) and Hadrat Khalifatul Masih III. By now its
branches are strung around the globe, and its
membership, which is increasing daily, exceeds ten
million. It is being widely recognised as the divinely
promised renaissance of Islam (9:33).
The place of Hadrat Maulawi Nur-ud-Din,
Khalifatul Masih Ira, is securely established in the
history of the Ahmadiyya Movement and of Islam.
Little is, however, known of his life and character, to
those members of the Movement and other seekers
after truth who are not familiar with Urdu. This is a
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