Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 100
IDEAL DISCIPLE Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 100 which he did, and Maulaw i Sahib ra examined her and wrote out a prescription for her. The husband was so gratified that he slipped away and brought him a ticket for the railway journey to Delhi and made him a present of a substantial sum of money as his fee. The next morning he presented himself before his master in Delhi. 29 The birth of Jesus as without a father had been a somewhat controversial question. Maulaw i N u r-ud- D i n ra had held the view that Jesus had a father. The Promised Messiah as , in his book Maw a hibur Ra h m a n , announced that it was part of his doctrine that Jesus as had been born without a father. On reading this Maulaw i Sahib ra discarded his view and fell into line with the view propounded by the Promised Messiah as. He frankly confessed this change of view in his book N u r-ud-D i n. He had also opined that the fire mentioned in 21:70 was the fire of opposition; but the Promised Messiah as observed: "There is no need to have recourse to such a construction. I too have been called Abraham as by God. Those who are unable to comprehend how the fire was cooled for Abraham as are welcome to throw me into the fire and see whether I emerge safe from it or not. " So Maulaw i Sahib ra , in refutation of Dharamp a l’s objection, wrote in N u r-ud- D i n : "You can throw our Leader into the fire, and you will see that Allah, the Exalted, will, according to His promise, safeguard him against the fire as He had safeguarded Abraham as. " 30 When the Promised Messiah as expounded his claim of reflective Prophethood as derived from the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet sa , someone asked Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra : "Can there be a Prophet after the Holy Prophet sa ?"