Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page iv
"As soon as I got the handbill of Braaheen-i-Ahmadiyya (in 1885) of Hadhrat Mirza Sahib, I immediately left for Qadian. . . "It was after Asr Prayer, I approached Masjid Mubarak. As soon as I saw his face, I was overjoyed, and felt happy and grateful to have found the perfect man that I was seeking all my life. . . "At the end of the first meeting, I offered my hand for Bai ‘ at. Hadhrat Mirza Sahib said, he was not yet Divinely commissioned to accept Bai ‘ at ; then I made Mirza Sahib promise me that I would be the person whose Bai ‘ at would be accepted first. . . . " [Hadhrat Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen in Al-Hakam , April 22, 1908]