Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 132
WISE COUNSELLOR Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 132 affected by the patriarchal appearance of the revered personage, and after the witness had withdrawn remarked to his reader: "If that man were to say that he is the Promised Messiah as , I would have to consider his claim very seriously. " Another witness examined the same day was Maulaw i Muhammad H usain of Bat a la whose virulent hostility to the Promised Messiah as was well known. His persistence in making patently false statements under cross-examination compelled the District Magistrate to record a note to that effect, which made his testimony worthless. When he went out of the court room, everyone whom he approached drew away from him in disgust, so that he could not even find a place where to sit. Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra , having observed his extreme humiliation, took pity on him, went up to him and taking him by the arm said to him: "Maulaw i Sahib come and sit with us". At a subsequent hearing ‘Abdul H am i d broke down and confessed that his first statement was false and had been made at the instigation of Dr. Clarke and some of his colleagues. The Promised Messiah as was honourably discharged, and though the District Magistrate offered to grant him leave for the prosecution of the principal witnesses against him for perjury and malicious prosecution, he declined to avail himself of the offer, remarking: "My case is pending in heaven, I have no wish to spend my time in chasing my opponents before earthly judges!" More than a quarter of a century later, long after Captain Douglas had retired from service and was settled in London, the present writer called on him to gather from him his impression of the Promised Messiah as. He was in excellent health and was in very good shape. They had a long talk. The sum of what he