Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 66
MAHARAJA’S PHYSICIAN Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 66 minister who might have pretentions to the succession. The family of this son-in-law of ours opposed the British during the Mutiny of 1857, and they were deported to the Andaman Islands. We helped the British and in recognition of our loyal help the British proposed to bestow more territory upon us. But we declined the offer of territory and instead secured the return of this Rajah and his father from Port Blair, restored their estates to them and married our daughter to this Rajah. Now if they should make the least move against us, there is still Port Blair. As for the Prime Minister, if I were to dismiss him tomorrow, he would be reduced to earning his livelihood by running a grocery shop. " At one time H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra felt a strong urge to study T abaq a tul Anw a r , a commentary on the Hadith: "He who has me as his friend, should have ‘Al i as his friend;" spread over more than seven hundred pages, by M i r Ha mid H usain. He heard that M i r Nawab of Lucknow, a Shia, who was also a physician in Jammu, possessed a copy. He asked him to lend it to him. The loan was made on condition that the book could be taken away at 10 p. m. and must be returned six hours later at 4 a. m. H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra studied the tome during the night, made notes and sent it back by the stipulated hour. He later studied the notes and reflected over them; though he had no notion why he had undertaken all that laborious research. A few days thereafter he was told by Shaikh Fati h Muhammad that they were to dine that evening with M i y an Il a hi Bakhsh, a leading citizen. When they were proceeding to the residence of the host Shaikh Fati h Muhammad disclosed to him that their host of the evening was a zealous Shia who had invited a