Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 123
Love for the Holy Quran Such was Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen's intellectual reputation that many writers of his time consulted him before publishing their works. He was an avid reader and had a huge personal library of rare books, from which leading Muslim scholars would often borrow. His library contained around 30,000 books and was worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. He never hesitated to spend any amount of money on a book. He collected books on Islam, whether in Arabic, Persian, or Urdu, from all over the world. Also, it was his habit that he always read the books before adding them to his library. Once he got an important book, which consisted of approximately 700 pages. However, he only had six hours to read it. Even in that short period of time he was able to go through that huge book and benefit thoroughly from it.