Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 103
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I EMINENT DIVINE 103 Happening to be in Lahore on one occasion, he was called in to advise on the case of a Hindu lady of respectable family, who had stood up among a number of women mourning the death of a relative and in the paroxysm of grief had repeatedly raised her arms above her head. She found that she had done it once too often. Her arms stiffened and would not be lowered. Physicians were at a loss and could not think of anything that might help restore the flexibility of the muscles of her arms. When he was informed of her condition he, without asking to see her or even entering the large room in which she stood motionless, suggested that the handsomest well-proportioned young man in the neighbourhood be summoned. On his arrival he told him to go into the room and walking purposefully up to the lady make a realistic gesture of disrobing her. He carried out his direction and the moment the afflicted woman perceived his design she emitted a cry of distress and her arms fell to her side. The shock had jolted her nervous system back into normal functioning. But physical and mental therapy was not alone his forte. His keenest interest was engaged by spiritual therapy. He was devoted to the study and healing of souls. For this purpose his materia medica, his pharmacopoeia and his vade mecum was the Holy Quran. He had committed it to memory and his scholarship of it was deep and profound. He did not miss any opportunity of expounding the inexhaustible treasures of wisdom comprised in it. He continued teaching it up to his last moments of full consciousness. He was wont to say: "The Quran is my sustenance and is the source of my soul’s refreshment. I read it a number of times a day, but my soul never has