Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 193
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 193 ( I‘tik a f ) in the mosque among a large company, which included Sahibz a da Mirz a Bashir-ud-Din Ma h m u d Ahmad. Except during the five Prayer services, he occupied himself from dawn till night with giving a lesson of the Holy Quran to his companions. He explained difficult points, drew attention to subtleties and answered questions. In this maner he covered one tenth of the Holy Quran each day and completed an exposition of the entire Holy Book by the end of Ramadan. As a physical performance alone, keeping in mind his age, health and the strain of the fast, it was a tour de force. It was an illustration of his consuming love for, and his wholehearted devotion to, the Holy Word of God. In the autumn of 1908, Hyderabad city in South India was overtaken by a flood of extraordinary violence which inflicted terrible suffering upon the people. Entire quarters of the city were overturned and thousands of people were buried in the rubble and perished. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra despatched several registered letters and urgent telegrams to obtain news about the community in the afflicted city, but in the confusion that prevailed none of them was delivered and, therefore, there was no response. He then sent Ha fi z Ab u Sa‘ i d Arab as his emissary to report on the situation. The letter that he received from the community in Hyderabad city thanking him for his concern about its members and his sympathy for them in their sufferings revealed how deeply he loved the members of the community and how anxious he was about their security and welfare. This is how it was worded: "In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Ever Merciful.