Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 101
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 100 Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen : Wherever it occurs in the Holy Qur'an, it means the same person, but I do not know whether the Companions always understood it in the same sense or used it to denote the like of him as well. Three hours had been wasted and Maulavi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi was still entangled in his technicalities while Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen had urgent work to do, so he requested those present to excuse him. They all agreed, as they saw no reason to detain him longer. Many of those present were the friends of Maulavi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi and respected him. But it appeared they had also become sick of listening to his irrelevant technicalities. Maulavi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi was annoyed. In his journal he later wrote that the audience were so much influenced by the words of Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen that they could not think of anything else. He also found fault with Haafiz Muhammad Yusuf and Munshi Ameer Din as they let Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen go away from the meeting and did not even let him sign the written report of his questions and answers. Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen took this opportunity of explaining further the claims of Ahmad to Haafiz Muhammad Yusuf and Munshi Ameer Din and others and then left Lahore on April 15, 1891, at 5 p. m. and informed his master at Ludhiana of all that had happened at Lahore. A report of it was published in a supplement to the Punjab Gazette dated April 25, 1891. Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen attended the first ever annual conference of the Jama ‘ at-i-Ahmadiyya in Qadian in 1891, and then from that year onward, he was one of the chief speakers at the conference, which was initiated by his master, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , the Promised Messiah. In 1898, the paper Al-Hakam was started by the Jama ‘ at in Qadian and he was one of the regular contributors. The Al-Hakam carried extensively the text of his Dars-i-Qur'an , ruling on finer points of Islam and special articles. An Anjuman, Hamdardaan-i-Islam , was formed in Qadian with the avowed object of servicing the needs of kids and the