Bright Lights of the Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 36
36 BRIGHT LIGHTS OF TH E A HMAOI YYA MOVEMENT knowledge. " What a wonderful feeling to know that your father loves you so much. One of Hazrat Nuruddin's hobbies was to collect books. Do you like to collect things like stamps or rocks? Do you have a favorite sport? Hazrat Nuruddin's favorite sport was swimming. He loved swimming so much, he would even swim in winter. When Nuruddin was twelve, he became sick. He was so interested in the way he was treated by the doctor that he wanted to learn medicine. But his oldest brother talked him out of it and told him to study Persian instead. However, his interest never died and later in life he did become an excellent doctor. Because Hazrat Nuruddin loved different languages, his brother Maulvi Sultan Ahmad taught him to read and understand Arabic. Now Nuruddin could read and write a number of languages. How many languages can you read or write? Once a friend of Nuruddin's father came to visit. His job was selling books. Because he knew that Hazrat Nuruddin had a great love for books, he gave him a copy of the five main chapters of the Holy Quran. At the age of seventeen, Hazrat Nuruddin started studying for his diploma in education. His progress was very fast, but unfortunately some of his classes had to be stopped. So in his spare time he would receive help from private teachers in other subjects. His knowledge was so outstanding that at the age of twenty-one he was the principal of a local school in India. Because of his love and deep understanding of Allah and the Holy Quran, he began to have true dreams. When Nuruddin heard that a man living in Qadian, India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed that God spoke to him, Nuruddin