Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 190
CHAPTER TEN' Hazrat Haji Hakeem Maulvi Nurud Din Sahib, the First Successor of the Promised Messiah, was' in his own way a unique personality. He was a direct lineal descendant, in the thirty-third generation in the male line, of Hazrat U mar, may Allah be pleased with him, Second Successor of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him. Ten of his immediate ancestors in an unbroken line had, like himself, committed the Holy Quran to memory. He often said that the Quran was his nurture, his dress, his breath and his very life. This was a spiritual reality and not a hyperbole. He was one of the most eminent physicians of India, and made a rich contribution to the development of the Unani system of medicine as practised in the country. In diagnosis he had no rival who approached anywhere near him. He did not hesitate to improvise and to experiment and was always justified by the astonishingly favourable results. He never charged a fee for his medical advice ~nd treated poor and rich with equal attention and sympathetic care. Yet he had a large income from the voluntary gifts that some of his well-to-do patients presented to him. He was most generous towards the poor and the afflicted. His benevolence towards everyone was unbounded. So far as he himself was concerned he attached no value to money, wealth or property. He had perfect trust in God and often said that God Almighty, of His grace, mercy and bounty, had assured him that He would always provide for him in all circumstances. In his long life many occasions arose in which those who were in touch with him at the moment could not think in what manner the needs with which he was confronted would be provided for, and yet not in a single instance out of the hundreds of such occasions did this Divine guarantee remain unfulfilled. He was not only an eminent physician and a great divine, 19°