Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 146
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Teachers, Students and Books To capture the true greatness of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra , one has to peep into many facets of his personality. His life was devoted to seeking the highest in learning and in education. The highest that he imbibed from his teachers and the highest he gave to his students. Teachers His first teachers were his own parents, who taught him the Holy Qur'an. The list of his teachers, whom he always acknowledged, is very long, and yet, it is not easy not to mention all names howsoever trivial they may be. His primary education was given by Mian Ghulam Haider, Haaji Karim Bakhsh, and Haaji Sharf-ud-Din. Hadhrat Maulana Sahib had his early medical education from Hakeem Ghulam Dastgir. The names of other teachers are indicated with names of the subjects in bracket: Munshi Muhammad Qasim (Persian), Mirza Imam (Caligraphy), Hakeem Allah Din (Medicine), Maulavi Sultan Ahmad - elder brother (Arabic), Maulavi Sikander (advanced level of Persian), Sheikh Ghulam Nabi (Maths), Munshi Nihal Chand (Geometry), Maulavi Ahmad Din Bagvi (Higher Arabic), Hakeem Muhammad Bakhsh (Medicine), Maulavi Irshad Hussain (Philosophy), Mufti Muhammad S ‘ adullah (Arabic and Fiqah ), Maulavi Abdul Ali (Logic), Maulavi Hakeem Ali Hussein (Higher Medicine). In the Holy Land during the Hajj , he had the occasion of learning from the following scholars: Sheikh Muhammad Khizreji (Hadith - Abu Dawood and Ibne Maajah ), Sheikhul Hadith Syed Hussain (Hadith - Muslim ) and Maulavi Rahmatullah Mohaajir Mecci (Hadith - Maaliki ). Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih I ra 's most distinguished teacher was Hadhrat Shah Abdul Ghani Mojaddidi (Hadith - Bukhaari and Tirmidhi ) and he spent about a year with