Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 171
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 170 God could not be fully conveyed in words. Once he said ( History of Ahmadiyyat , v. 4, pp. 596-597): My love for the Holy Qur'an is simply limitless; it has no boundaries. I see the face of my beloved in the oval words of the Holy Qur'an. A stream of Qur'anic verses flow out of my mouth and I carry a garden of the Holy Qur'an in my body. The Holy Qur'an is my food and I only find true contentment and comfort by reading it. Unless I read it again and again, my thirst and my urge remain unquenched. It is my belief that one rukoo (a set of several verses) of the Holy Qur'an is better than a kingdom. The regularity of Dars-i-Qur'an was such that once he was giving Dars in high fever and his weakness kept growing. First, from standing he seated himself and then he lay in the bed. Later, he was carried in a cot to his home, and then on the way back, he again insisted that he should be taken back to the mosque. On his arrival in the mosque, first he offered the Maghrib prayer. He delivered a Dars of one rukoo , and then he was carried back to the house on the cot. What a love he had for the Book of his beloved! Hadhrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad drew a picture of how he delivered the Dars ( Al-Fazl , December 6, 1950, pp. 3-4): Interrupting my education, I started learning the Holy Qur'an at the hand of Maulana Sahib. Once I completed the learning of the Holy Qur'an at his hand, I used to watch him. Even in public Dars (there were some sessions which were given individually only to Hadhrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad), he used to speak about the beauties and the excellences of the Holy Qur'an as if somebody was dwelling upon the finer points of the beauty of his beloved. His explanation of finer points of the Holy Qur'an looked as if he was speaking about the beauty, charm, grace and loveliness of his beloved. What a majlis it used to be when people listened to him spellbound.