Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 193
Khalifatul Masih As Seen By His Master And Others 195 him to get the assistance of Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen, who was a scholar of Hebrew ( Musannif magazine, June 1922). Once someone asked Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: If an illiterate is educated, he is known as an educated person, and if an educated person acquires further knowledge he becomes a scholar, and if a scholar keeps on getting further education he becomes a soofi, if a soofi goes further in the quest of more knowledge what does he become? Sir Syed Ahmad Khan promptly replied: "That soofi, if he keeps on studying, he becomes Noor-ud-Deen ” ( Al-Badr , May 6, 1909, p. 3). This is how high he was held in esteem by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi : An outstanding scholar, Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi, often visited Qadian to see Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen. On one occasion, Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi was in a meeting answering questions of various scholars. During the discussion, he mentioned the name of Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen as a great scholar of the Holy Qur'an. There was one present in the meeting who lost his temper and said, "He is a Qadiani. " Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi politely answered, "When did I say that he is not Qadiani, my observation was that he is an astute scholar of the Holy Qur'an. " ( Irshaadaat Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi , p. 23) At another place in the same book (p. 34), Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi says, "I have met Hakeem Sahib several times in Qadian. As a matter of fact and in reality, I have visited a great number of Muslim countries and have met scholars of Mecca and Medina, but none had the mastery and command on the secrets of the Holy Qur'an as Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen did. " He further says in the same book (p. 402), "In reality, I acknowledge that Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen is a giant among scholars. He is a fountain of Islamic knowledge. He is sincere, dedicated and renders selfless service to the religion and, above all, he had pledged all his life for one purpose and one object, Islam , and I stand as a testimony to his vast qualities. " Allama Shibli No ‘ amaani : On October 9, 1910, a delegation of Ahmadi scholars went on a tour of Uttar Pradesh and this