Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 202
KHILAFAT Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 202 with a mosque outside the town. An area of fifty acres was acquired and the order of priority was laid down as mosque, hostel and school. The mosque, named Masjid N u r, was built with funds acquired largely through the devoted efforts of M i r N as ir Nawab ra. In the first year of the Khilafat ten thousand rupees were collected for the hostel and a kiln was set up for baking bricks. Thirty thousand more rupees were needed for the hostel building. In May 1909, under the direction of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , an appeal for that amount was made to the community by Maulaw i Muhammad ‘Al i , and a committee composed of Sahibz a da Mirz a Bashir-ud-Din Ma h m u d Ahmad ra , Dr. Sayyid Muhammad H usain ra , Dr. Mirz a Ya‘q u b Baig ra , Khaw a ja Kam a l-ud-D i n, Mutfi Muhammad Sadiq ra , Shaikh Ya‘q u b ‘Al i ‘Irf a n i and Maulaw i Muhammad ‘Al i was appointed for the collection of funds. Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra made a personal contribution of six hundred rupees. In due course, the school building was also constructed, government having made a grant-in-aid of twenty-five thousand rupees. Some time later a hospital was added through the continued efforts of M i r Nasir Nawab. It was named N u r Hospital. Another of his beneficent projects was the construction of a number of quarters for the indigent. In all this he was supported by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra with prayers and financial contributions, and was held up by him as an example to others. The prayers of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra were granted extraordinary fulfilment by the grace and mercy of Allah. Q adi Muhammad Z ah u r-ud-d i n Akmal, Assistant Editor of Badr , published a poem of his, in 1909, with a mystical motif, the burden of which was: I had not known. One afternoon when Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was resting at home, he