Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 22
SOJOURN AT BHOPAL Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 22 After dinner Munshi Sahib talked to me apart and asked my particulars. I told him I was from the Punjab and had arrived in Bhopal in search of knowledge. I conceived that he thought I was a prosperous and learned person who had fallen into adversity, and that my alleged search for knowledge was only a pretension. So he told me I would be his guest and that he would arrange for my instruction. He allotted a quarter for my residence, and directed his librarian to let me have free access to the books. He also had my own books and bundle sent for, and appointed Maulaw i ‘Abdul Qayy u m Sahib as my teacher. I began to study S a hih Bukh a r i and Hid a yah with him. " 5 Munshi Jam a ludd i n gave a lesson of the Holy Quran every evening. One day Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra also attended the lesson. The verse: "When they meet those who believe they assert: 'We believe;' but when they are in the company of their fellows…" (2:77) was under exposition. He asked permission to raise a point, which being granted, he said: In this verse and in 2:15 the reference is to the hypocrites of Medina. Here they are described simply as their fellows. In 2:15 they are described as satans. There must be a reason for this discrimination. Munshi Sahib confessed he could not think of one, would Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra set it forth. He suggested that there were two categories of hypocrites in Medina. One from among the Jews, and the other from among the pagans. In the verse under exposition the reference was to the Jews, and as they were people of the Book they were described simply as the fellows of their brother hypocrites. In 2:15 the reference was to the pagans and they were castigated as satans. Munshi Sahib was so struck by this exposition that he moved