Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 35
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 34 first day in Bhera, and in a way on his return to Bhera, he was making a new beginning of his scholarship. So at this encounter, Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen said, "I am just returning after pursuit of knowledge as a student, I don't lay claim to vast knowledge, or to higher horizons, or experience in these matters. What, however, I can recall is that Bukhaari has at least sixty various interpretations and each of them took sixteen years to complete, and if 16 is multiplied by 60, the very writing of Bukhaari took nearly a thousand years. And according to four leading authorities, several versions of Bukhaari were compiled, and I myself had the privilege of learning Bukhaari from a leading Hanafi divine, Maulavi Abdul Qayyum Sahib of Bhopal, and then in Medina, I learnt it at the hand of Shah Abdul Ghani Mojaddidi. ” That Maulavi was completely nonplused at such a firm reply, and could not respond to this firm assertion by Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen, so he engaged himself in nefarious activities of instigating people against Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen, saying he was a Wahhaabi (a sect in Islam). Writing about the stiff opposition that Maulana Hakeem Noor- ud-Deen met at the hands of these half-baked scholars, a Hanafi scholar, Maulavi Zuhoorullah Ahmad Bagvi, says, "On return from Hajj , Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen adopted Wahhaabiat and stopped following tradition and spoke against it and wrote books about it, which caused a great deal of furore. So much so, that a joint fatwa (a decree), signed by half a dozen local scholars was issued against him. After a scholarly debate, all non- traditionalists of Bhera were boycotted. ” Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen himself narrated the event of stiff opposition at the hand of these scholars, and of repeated Divine help he received in the following words ( Mirqaatul Yaqeen , pp. 133-137): One day, I was reading Mishkaat in my own mosque and read a Hadith saying, "Whoever listens to Aazaan (call for prayer) and repeats the words of Aazaan and thereafter says ‘ this is my