Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 70
SEEKER AND SOUGHT Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 70 VII SEEKER AND SOUGHT Maulaw i H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra had by this time acquired great repute as an outstanding physician, a learned divine, a discerning mystic and an exemplary believer. He had for long been seeking for a perfect spititual guide and spiritual preceptor. He had been privileged to meet personages who possessed great learning and led pious and righteous lives, who were wise and beneficent, but who were not too much concerned with the defence of Islam and establishing its superiority over other faiths. He prayed earnestly for the appearance of such a champion of Islam. Later he described this phase of his life in a brochure drawn up in Arabic of which the following is a rendering in English: "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Ever Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, Most Gracious, Ever Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. Blessings and peace be on the Chief of mankind, Chief of divine Messengers and Prophets as , chosen of the chosen ones, Muhammad sa , Seal of the Prophets, and on his people and companions, all of them. This weak and indigent servant of the Mighty and Trustworthy God, N u r-ud-D i n (may God safeguard him against all afflictions and include him among His servants whom He has granted security and make him truly the light of the faith, as is the connotation of his name) submits as follows. Ever since I have