Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 150
Teachers, Students and Books 149 an extent that he would compose and say extempore Qaseedah (a poem in praise of some one) in the Arabic language. Hadhrat Maulavi Abdul Karim Sialkoti : During Hakeem Sahib's stay in Jammu, Hakeem Sahib taught him Bukhaari Shareef. According to him, he was completely ignorant of the knowledge of the Hadith , and it was the kindness of Hakeem Maulana Noor-ud-Deen, that stimulated great interest in him in this field. Maulavi Abdul Karim says: "I am of the view that whoever wishes to see the face of the founder of Islam, he should read the Hadith , where, in every word, he was reflected, and it was in the company of Hakeem Sahib that I became aware of this important field. " Hadhrat Maulavi Abdul Karim Sialkoti had a command of three languages: Urdu, Arabic and Persian, and he spoke each one of them as if it was his mother tongue. He had a good command of the English language as well. He translated a number of books of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as into Persian. Ghulam Nabi Misri : He was one of the prominent students of Hakeem Noor-du-Deen and a leading scholar. Maulana Sahib sent him to Bhopal to go to the library of Nawab Siddique Hassan Khan (husband of the Begum of Bhopal) to copy some rare manuscripts and one of them was Tafseer Shaukaani comprising of six volumes. It took a year to copy them, and then he was sent to Egypt to copy a rare medical manuscript, Shafaa-i- ‘ Aleel , and it took him one and a half years to copy this book of 800 pages. He is also the author of a number of books, and he translated many books of the Promised Messiah into Arabic. Hadhrat Nawab Muhammad Ali of Malir Kotla : He learnt the Holy Qur'an from Hakeem Sahib.