Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 99
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I IDEAL DISCIPLE 99 of the Promised Messiah as , before dispersing. His way to his own quarters led across the space where Sayyid Sarwar Sh a h was still engaged in his worship, and there he came to a halt. When the worshipper perceived that he was blocking him, he forthwith terminated his devotions to enable him to pass, upon which a neighbour said to him in a whisper: "Why have you interrupted your Prayer?" The Promised Messiah as caught the whisper and observed: "Maulaw i Sahib ra has done right. Good deeds wipe out defaults (11:115). " It was Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n’s ra routine that whatever he might be occupied with, the moment he had intimation that the Promised Messiah as was accessible, he would stop in the middle of a sentence, stand up and dragging his shoes, and trailing his turban in the process of winding it up, proceed to wait on him. During one of the Promised Messiah’s as visits to Delhi, his father-in-law, Hadrat M i r N as ir Nawab ra , who was of the party, fell ill, and he decided to send for Maulaw i N u r-ud-D i n ra from Qadian. He directed the despatch of a telegram to him summoning him to Delhi. Whoever drafted the telegram simply worded it: "Come immediately. " When Maulaw i Sahib ra received the telegram he was in his clinic. He stood up immediately, sent a hurried message to his wife that he had been summoned to Delhi by Hadrat Sahib as , left for Bat a la just as he was without any money in his pocket. At Bat a la railway station a wealthy Hindu citizen requested him to go home with him and examine his ailing wife. He said he had to catch the next train for Amritsar, as he was on his way to Delhi, and had not the time to go into town. The anxious husband offered to fetch his wife to the railway station