Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 113
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I EMINENT DIVINE 113 others were great men who were endowed with esoteric as well as exoteric lore, yet they wrote no commentary. Shah a budd i n Suharaward i rh wrote a commentary but it contains nothing original. "The Promised Messiah as , who is commissioned to the service of the Holy Quran, has published no translation of, or commentary on, the Holy Quran. People have derived some benefit from the published translations of and commentaries on the Holy Quran, but most people are apt to treat them as the last word and relying on them stop thinking for themselves, which does great harm. "I wrote a commentary and my friends insisted that it should be published. Then I reflected that those who came after me might think it was the last word and thus close upon themselves the door of the verities and wisdom of the Holy Quran. It is the Book of God, it furnishes the answer to the problems of every age and is a healing for the ills of the soul in all conditions. Its benefit should not be circumscribed. So I abandoned the attempt to confine the limitless ocean within a pitcher. " 39 His thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He had built up a large library which contained many rare books in manuscript collected or copied from far and near. On one occasion he sent one of his disciples, Maulaw i Ghul a m Nab i , to Bhopal to make a copy of the commentary of Shauk a n i , which was preserved in the library of N u rul H asan Kh a n, son of Nawab S idd i q H asan Kh a n. It was in six volumes, and it took Maulaw i Ghul a m Nab i a whole year to copy it.