Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 310
CLOSING SCENE Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 310 started the publication of the journal Kh a t u n from ‘Al i garh. Thus H ak i m N u r-ud-D i n ra was a living example of true benevolence. He had two great passions, promotion of the welfare of indigent students and the collection of rare books. All his large income was devoted to these two purposes. He was very humble and courteous. He performed all his duties righteously. Those who worked under him were well pleased with him and never had any grievance. He was an erudite divine and a great scholar; he possessed great proficiency in Arabic. During his leisure hours he gave lessons in Bukh a r i and Muslim. He had a profound understanding of the faith. " Maulana Ab u ’l Kal a m A z a d, himself a renowned scholar and statesman, subsequently President of the All-India Congress, and Minister of Education in the Government of India, wrote in Al-Bal a gh , under the caption: "Farewell N u r-ud-D i n—I regret that I am the last in expressing my condolences over the departure of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement, and the expert diagnostician of the eternal verities H ak i m Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n. A personality that combined a vast expanse of erudition with a treasury of the practical manifestations of true piety and righteousness is no longer present among us. Erudition in all that pertained to the faith and a deep understanding of verities, tempered by wide scholarship that comprehended every type of literature from divine scriptures to masterpieces of fiction, had raised N u r-ud-D i n’s mind to a level whence it was able to contemplate and