Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 89
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I MIGRATION 89 some time, further construction of the building should be suspended. After his wife had arrived in Qadian Hadrat Sahib as observed one day: "Maulaw i Sahib, you are fond of books, you might have your books sent over from Bhera. " He made arrangements accordingly. Some days later he was told not to consider Bhera as his home any more. He felt some apprehension at this. He would not visit Bhera again, but it might not be possible for him to stop thinking of it as his home. He often mentioned later that God, of His grace, so controlled his thoughts that the idea of Bhera being his home never crossed his mind. Qadian was a small town of a few hundred people, eleven miles from the nearest railway station and telegraph office, with which it was connected by means of a sandy track pitted with potholes. The only means of communication with the outside world was through a sub-post office. There was a total lack of urban amenities and facilities. Even the supply of drinking water was precarious. Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra took up his residence in his unpretentious sun-baked brick lodging, happy in the realisation of his soul’s cherished dream. His only purpose was to win the pleasure of Allah, through utter devotion to his spiritual preceptor, commissioned by God to bring about the revival of Islam. A leading citizen of Bhera wrote to him that he was ill, and that as he had been his family physician he desired him to visit him and give directions with regard to his treatment. He wrote back that he had migrated from Bhera and was now permanently settled at Qadian and could not move out of it without the permission of his master Hadrat Mirza Sahib as. The patient then wrote to Hadrat Mirza Sahib as , begging him to direct Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra to visit