Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 110
110 HAZRAT RA always provide for his needs. He never had any money for himself because he gave it all away. This conversation with the shopkeeper was still going on when an official of the State's treasury came to him to pay 480 rupees, the balance of the unpaid salary. The Hindu shopkeeper was annoyed to see that cash. In the meantime, the wife of the Rajah sent a messenger with a lot of cash. The shopkeeper's anger was growing. Having nothing else to say, he then taunted Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra asking him how he was going to settle a huge loan of 150,000 rupees which he owed to another Hindu lender. The shopkeeper had not yet finished his taunting remarks when a messenger from the same lender came and said, 'I have been directed by my boss to make arrangements for any further cash if needed or to give a helping hand in packing and sending the household effects to Bhera. ' The shopkeeper was completely flabbergasted to see the sequence of these events. Thereafter,