Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 311
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I CLOSING SCENE 311 penetrate the mystery of human emotions. That is why a gentle stirring of his sparse but meaningful words imposed the stamp of silence on the high-faluting eloquence of his opponents. The whole of his being was a wonderful and rare compound of the upsurge of faith and wide knowledge. His universe-comprehending vision was a magnetic net of wisdom. His philosophic research in combination with perfect righteousness had laid open the mysteries of heaven before him. His perfect confidence in Divine wisdom inspired all his thinking. The latter part of his life was devoted to the Ahmadiyya Movement, and his days and nights were spent in laborious striving for the achievement of its spiritual purposes. Doubtless the sincere devotion and utter obedience that he manifested towards his spiritual preceptor had not their equal except among the early Muslims. The attribution of natural death to Jesus as , who was commonly fancied as dwelling physically in heaven, and the identification of the Mahdi and Messiah as a single individual, was a bitter message for Indian Muslim divines, and the torrent of opposition that this novel concept aroused was like a consuming clap of thunder; but the fierceness of this storm did not in the least affect the firmness of N u r-ud-D i n’s faith. He stood four-square as a solid mountain facing unmoved the sweeping clouds and the bursting thunder. His sincere steadfastness did not brook that till his last breath he should forsake the rocky pillow on which his troubled and questing spirit had at last found repose. Though I do not find myself in agreement with some of the concepts of the Ahmadiyya Movement, yet I