Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 218
ILLNESS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 218 should love. There are some concerning whom I was not aware how much love they have for me and for their fellow members of the community. The way in which they have served me day and night during my illness is an indication of the degree of their devotion, whereby Allah has manifested their qualities. It is proof of God’s care for this humble one. I am most grateful to all those who have demonstrated their sympathy for me in my present condition. My heart is at rest. No one is as dear to me and is loved by me so much as God, nor is there any one who is such a helper and supporter for me as He is. He has bestowed His grace and His beneficence upon me in my present situation without measure. He has provided for me whence no one can conceive of. He has even removed the overt means of my subsistence which was my profession of a physician and has provided for me through covert means. I am not beholden to any one for the provision that has reached my home in these days: I am beholden for it only to Allah. All this is very strange in the eyes of the beholders. " 97 In December 1910, he observed one day: "Illness is a trial in several ways. Expenses go up, and income declines, and one becomes dependent upon others. My visible means of subsistence was my practice as a physician, and now that has been suspended on account of my illness. Those who do not know the true state of my affairs imagined that my practice was the means of fulfilling my needs, and God has now suspended it. My wife