Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 51
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I PHYSICIAN AT BHERA 51 In those days he was eager to read Ibn Khalad u n’s book on History. A bookseller offered it to him for seventy rupees. He told him he could not pay him the total amount in cash, but would pay him by instalments. The bookseller did not agree. The same afternoon when he came to his clinic he found the book on his desk. His enquiries could not elicit how the book had found its way to him. One day a patient told him that he had noticed that a Sikh had put it on his desk. He said he did not know his name, but could identify him. Some days later he brought the Sikh to him, who explained that, having heard of the incident with the bookseller, he had immediately purchased the book from him and had placed it on his desk. He added that he was reimbursed by his employer who had given him instructions to provide, at his expense, whatever Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra might need. By then he could afford seventy rupees and sent the amount to his benefactor, who felt affronted and complained to Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n’s ra elder brother, who agreed to accept the money and reprove him. About that time he was called to treat an unusual case of paralysis for which he could recall no precedent. He called in aid general principles and improvised a course of treatment under which the patient began to improve, and eventually recovered completely. This extraordinary cure was much talked of and greatly boosted his practice. He came to know of a widow whose circumstances were such that he felt she would prove a good match for him. He approached her with the proposal and she signified her own willingness, but was apprehensive that, as remarriage of widows was not generally looked upon with favour, her guardian would not approve of it for her and would withhold his