Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 48
PHYSICIAN AT BHERA Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 48 camp of Ruling Chiefs. After he had walked for some miles he noticed that the sun was about to set and was thinking of returning to town, when a retainer of Munshi Jam a ludd i n Sahib of Bhopal came running up to him and told him that Munshi Sahib had noticed him walking along and had sent him to fetch him. He said it was getting late and he would be glad to call on Munshi Sahib in the morning; but the man was insistent and suggested that as Munshi Sahib’s camp was quite close he should make his excuse personally. Munshi Sahib received him with his customary graciousness and said: "My daughter’s son Muhammad ‘ Umar is ill. I would wish you to examine him. " He suggested he would come and examine the patient in the morning. Munshi Sahib insisted he should stay the night, and had a tent put up for him in which he spent a comfortable night. As the next day was Friday, Munshi Sahib had a suit of clothes prepared for him during the night. The following day after the Friday Prayer service, Munshi Sahib offered to drive with him to his lodging to collect his baggage and enquired its address. He pointed to a narrow lane into which a carriage could not drive. Munshi Sahib sent two of his retainers with him to fetch the baggage. Accompanied by them he plunged into the lane and kept walking purposefully till he noticed a building, into and out of which people were entering and emerging freely. He too entered it, and finding that most people made for the first floor he asked his two companions to wait below and himself walked upstairs. He had not the slightest notion where he was; only he felt propelled by an inner impulse which he obeyed. Among the large company upstairs he distinguished Maulaw i ‘Ubaidull a h, author of Tu h fatul Hind , who seemed delighted to see him and said: "Your coming is very