Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 112
EMINENT DIVINE Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 112 Ras u l, I saw one night in a dream that a person of venerable appearance gave me a cup filled with milk, and said: "Drink this. " I drank the greater part of it, and he said: "Drink more. " So I drank more. I did not comprehend the meaning of my dream at the time, but when I came to Qadian I realised that the venerable person I had seen in my dream was Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra. Sometimes I sat with him through the night learning from him, but he was never bored. Among those who attended his daily lesson of the Holy Quran were some who took copious notes and a selection of these was printed, but he himself never published a commentary. His reason was: "The Holy Quran is the Word of Allah; as Allah is Infinite, so is His Word. Therefore, we cannot confine its interpretation to certain defined conceptions. He went on to add: The Holy Quran being the Word of Allah, it could be expected that He should have expounded it Himself, but He did not; nor did the Holy Prophet sa. After him his immediate Successors could have done so, but did not. None of the four great Imams of Jurisprudence, Ab u H an i fah rh , M a lik rh , Sh a fi‘i rh or Ahmad rh bin H ambal wrote a commentary on the Holy Quran, though the first of them was not far removed from the Holy Prophet sa and had met some of his companions. Of the Compilers of Hadith, Bukh a r i rh , Tirmidh i rh and Ab u D a ‘ u d rh were eminent personages, but not one of them wrote a commentary on the Holy Quran. Among the Su f i s Mu‘ i nudd i n Chisht i rh , Sh a h Naqshband, Sayyid ‘Abdul Q a dir Jil a n i rh and