Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page xvi
Preface xvi eating, resting, worshipping or in conversation, every action and every word should reflect and mirror unmistakeably the immeasurable love for Him. It was, therefore, no wonder that with such an absorption in God, God took extraordinary care of him. This book is replete with accounts of how at every step and every period of his life, Hadhrat Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen became a visible recipient of divine favours. Once he was delivering a Dars in the mosque, and during the Dars he was completely overwhelmed when accounts of numerous divine favours started to come to his mind in a stream. He became emotional and said, "What and how should I tell you the account of unending tales of the divine favours; I am not tired, and I would not feel tired of telling the accounts of these countless favours over and over that God, in His infinite mercy, kept conferring on me. " The Promised Messiah identified him in his books as his closest Companion and a very dear disciple. In order to realize what a momentous personality he was, one simply has to read the pages of this book, which represent a feeble effort to squeeze an unsqueezable account of "The Way of the Righteous. " This biography is based on research work done by Muhammad Idrees, who prepared a thesis for his degree of Master of Art in History from Punjab University in 1980. The thesis was in Urdu, and carried a bibliography of 120 books in Urdu and English. Research work, especially when it is done with an eye for an M. A. , has its own requirements and limitations; therefore, in order to prepare a biography on an outstanding person like Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , certain other requirements came into play. This book, while based on the thesis, has been thoroughly edited and revised,