Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 81
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I SEEKER AND SOUGHT 81 he was annoyed and remarked: "It seems N u r-ud-D i n is becoming arrogant. I shall no longer let him attend on the Rajah. " Thereafter for several months he was not called in to see the Rajah. 21 Then it so happened that the Maharaja had to go to Lahore and he was accompanied by the Rajah of P u nch, who fell ill in Lahore. As no other physician was available among the party, he sent for Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra at noon, when no one else was present. When he arrived, the Rajah said to him: "Your allowance for the current year has not been remitted to you. I shall direct that two years’ allowance may be remitted to you immediately. " Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra ventured the observation: "Perhaps you have sent for me at this unusual hour so that the retainer who is annoyed with me for refusing to visit him should not come to know of my coming to see you. If that is so, he might resent my treating you and might do you some harm. " The Rajah confessed: "We have to be careful of them. These wretches are not beyond having recourse to poison. " He continued to treat the Rajah, but his health deteriorated progressively and shortly after his return to P u nch he died. Someone warned Maulaw i N u r-ud- D i n ra that the deceased Rajah’s son, who succeeded his father, and whom he had treated during his long illness, and who had always professed friendly sentiments towards him, contemplated prosecuting him for having caused his father’s death by malicious wrong treatment, perhaps even by poison. He felt the prince was being instigated by the disgruntled retainer. But the matter went no further. Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra was very generous in helping deserving students develop their intellectual faculties. At one time he formed a design of training a