Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 12
Birth and Education 11 From his childhood, he acquired extraordinary powers of reasoning. He was bold and courageous. Once, one of his classmates, Sheikh Muhammad, elder brother of Sheikh Hakeem Fazl Ahmad, a doctor in Rawalpindi, said to him, "Come on, let us do our studies," to which he replied, "What you say! You want to become a Hakeem only, but I want to become a king. " Visit to Lahore His elder brother, Maulavi Sultan Ahmad, had established a printing press in Lahore. Thus he often visited Lahore and learnt a lot from his elder brother. When he fell ill, his brother brought him to Lahore. He remained under the medical treatment of Hakeem Ghulam Dastgir, and gradually recovered. He was greatly influenced by the fame of Hakeem Ghulam Dastgir. This generated an interest in medicine. His elder brother considered it appropriate for him to acquire knowledge of Persian as a first step towards learning medicine. Maulana Hakeem Noor- ud-Deen offered himself as a pupil to the famous Persian scholar, Munshi Muhammad Qasim Kashmiri. He acquired a good knowledge of Persian. Meanwhile, he also tried his hand at calligraphy. He took lessons from a famous calligrapher, Mirza Imam Veervi. He did not show much interest in calligraphy, yet his style of writing was nice and neat. Both of these teachers were from Shia School of Thought. He acquired information about the Shia School of Thought from them. It is stated in Hayat-i-Noor by Sheikh Abdul Qadir: One of his teachers, Munshi Muhammad Qasim Ali Ridhvi (Shia) taught him Persian. He would urge him to write a letter on society, a letter on warriors, a letter on spring, and a letter on autumn. Later, he would ask him to read all those letters. When he read these letters, he was greatly encouraged. Titles