Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 114
114 HAZRAT RA to him, 'I am very happy that you are here and I hope you are going to stay for sometime. ' Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra thought this meant staying for a few days and so he happily and silently complied. However, after a few days the Promised Messiah as said, 'Why don't you ask your wife to come down from Bhera and join you here?' Upon this, he realised that he would have to stay longer, so he wrote to his wife asking her to join him in Qadian and paused the work on his home and hospital. A few days later, the Promised Messiah as said, 'You have a great library of your own in Bhera and you are fond of books. Why don't you have them brought here?' All this time Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra never even once thought of telling the Promised Messiah as that he had come to Qadian for just a few hours to visit him and that he had building materials waiting for him in Lahore. Then, on another day the Promised Messiah as asked Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra to call his