Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 203
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 203 heard his wife reciting the poem in a tone that moved him deeply. He sat up suddenly and exclaimed: Praise be to Allah, I have always known! He enquired whose poem it was and having been told, and also that the poet had lost two sons, one after the other at a short interval, while they were of tender age, he immediately sent a note to him: "I have prayed earnestly for you. Allah will compensate you graciously for the loss of your boys. Never have my supplications to Thee, O Lord, remained unfruitful. " 85 The bereaved parents were blessed with a son in 1910, whom Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra named ‘Abdur Ra h m a n, and another one in 1913, whom he named ‘Abdur Ra hi m. They both became university graduates, and had good careers. A young man of Lucknow, too outspoken and free and careless in his deportment, but utterly sincere and brimming with the milk of compassion and human kindness was a student of the Lahore Medical College. He was a zealous Ahmad i and a great admirer of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra whom he visited frequently. He was always at loggerheads with his Professors and teachers and fancied that they had conceived a prejudice against him. He twice failed to make the grade in his final examination. Being chagrined, he said in an audible whisper to a friend, while in the company of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra , and perhaps with the intent to provoke him: Either there is no God, or He has no control over my examiners! The Khalifatul Masih ra heard him, looked at him and exclaimed: "Ho! Indeed?" and went on with his work. That year the frustrated student passed his examination. When he informed Hadrat Khalifatul Masih , somewhat shamefacedly, of his success, he