Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 153
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 152 Books of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , on his arrival in Qadian, initiated from the very beginning the habit of writing articles and books. This was not to merely gain name and fame as an author, but he thought it necessary to take up the pen to write for those who had not the opportunity of seeing or meeting him. Hence he wrote numerous books on a variety of subjects. Once he came to his master and Imam, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , and very humbly requested in what field he should do the mujaahadah (a concerted effort for a noble cause). Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as told him that the best mujaahadah for him was to write, and suggested him to write a book against Christians. So when he returned from Qadian, after meeting his master, the first book that came out of his pen was Fasl-ul- Khitaab. Fasl-ul-Khitaab on Surah Faatihah Hakeem Sahib had moved to the State of Jammu as a Royal Physician, and on his arrival in Jammu, he had a bad experience with a landlord, who, in a single week, raised the rent to twelve times the amount he had agreed to pay. He was disgusted and wished to leave the city at once, and it was at this juncture that a noble and wealthy man of Jammu saw this and literally forced Hakeem Sahib to move to his house as his guest and he remained there for ten years. It was Sheikh Fateh Muhammad, who urged him to write this book. How did he come to write this book? Once a question arose whether the prayer can be offered without the recitation of surah Faatihah. He tackled this question exhaustively in Fasl-ul-Khitaab and, apart from the book of the Promised Messiah , who wrote on the excellences and the blessings of this surah, the book of Hakeem Sahib was the second best on this subject. This book appeared in 1879 and was published in Jammu.