Fazl-e-Umar — Page 43
Fazle Umar 43 Our hearts are free of all others since we came to know Thee. Bless this day Ye Who keeps me in sight Grace with acceptance all my prayers Lord I am all for Thee, help us my Lord we have come to Thy abode with great expecta- tions. Bless this day Ye Who keeps me in sight. 21 Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] was enrolled into school for formal education after the first reading of the Holy Qur’an. Along with this he was provided Urdu and English tuition at home. Hadhrat Pir Manzoor Muhammad sahib [ra] taught him Urdu and thereafter Hadhrat Maulvi Sher Ali sahib [ra] taught him English. We can better gauge the circumstances in which all this took place from Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] himself. P O OR H E A LT H A n d P O OR S C HO OL A T T E n d A n C E Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] states that regarding his education he owes the greatest debt to Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I [ra]. He was only too aware on account of being a physician, that due to the poor health of Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib, it was not possible for him to look at a book for any length of time. Hence, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I [ra] would sit him down next to him and instruct him to listen while he read aloud. From an early age Hadhrat Sahibzada Sahib continuously suffered from an eye infection, a condition he endured for almost four years. At one point this had become so chronic that the doctors predicted complete loss of sight. In this state of affairs Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad [as] began to offer special prayers for his son’s health and complemented these with voluntary fasting. Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] could not recall whether he kept three or seven fasts. When he put a morsel of food in his mouth to break his final fast, Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood