Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 44
PHYSICIAN AT BHERA Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 44 towards you. Thus altogether the prospect is not encouraging. " He had married shortly before and felt that it was time he settled down to a career. His experience so far, though limited and haphazard, had proved his competence. His diagnosis and even his improvisations had justified themselves. He was fortified by a strong faith and perfect reliance upon God. His father also encouraged him and suggested he should establish his clinic in a large, spacious house which he placed at his disposal. His simple methods soon began to attract patients. Throughout his life he never demanded a fee and was more than content with whatever God provided. He did not discriminate between his patients. Everyone of them received his full attention. The poor and indigent were the objects of his special care. Where needed, he provided them financial assistance. His father died, and a short while after his elder brother told him that the house in which he held his clinic had been purchased and put in order with money provided by him, and that for some reason it was needful that he should furnish him with a written declaration to that effect. He complied readily and cheerfully, and to make assurance doubly sure he directed his apprentices to remove his paraphernalia to the chamber attached to a certain mosque, which they promptly did. When his mother learnt of this, she told him that his brother had not meant him to move, and tried to explain the background, but he had already moved. Discovering a desirable plot of ground, which belonged to the municipality of Bhera, he asked a builder to put up a suitable structure on it, and requested a Hindu acquaintance to furnish the money