Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 19
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I SOJOURN AT BHOPAL 19 III SOJOURN AT BHOPAL The travellers had advanced only a few miles beyond Gunnah Cantonment when a peasant warned them that they should change their route as the area ahead of them was infested with the cholera epidemic. Maulaw i Sahib suggested that they should heed the warning, but Ma h m u d made light of it saying that it was but the assertion of a single individual which was not worthy of credit. A few minutes later Ma h m u d suffered an attack of cholera. They were refused admission to a neighbouring village and perforce bivouacked in the shade of a tree. H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra occupied himself diligently with the treatment and nursing of his travelling companion, but he succumbed after two or three days of illness. The headman of the village was persuaded to arrange for the digging of a grave only on payment of a large sum of money. H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra performed the last offices and carried out the burial single handed. All the anxiety, fatigue and privation that he had endured had rendered him weak and helpless. Presently the headman came running to him in great perplexity. His only son was suffering from cholera and he begged H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra to go to his house and treat the boy, which he did. As a result of his treatment and ministrations the boy rallied and began to mend. Thereafter he treated successfully several other patients in the village. The headman and his wife entertained him and looked after him. The headman not only returned to him the money that he