Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 76
Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen The Way of the Righteous 76 Soofi Ahmad Jaan (father-in-law of Hakeem Sahib) that on March 23, 1889, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as accepted the Bai ‘ at and that Hakeem Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen was the first person to offer his Bai ‘ at. Abdur Rahim Dard, in his book, Life of Ahmad (Part 1, p. 154), wrote the following: The formal initiation began on March 23, 1889. The Bai ‘ at was taken at Naya Mohalla Ludhiana. Ahmad sat in the north-eastern corner of the room. Sh. Hamid Ali was posted at the door and the disciples were called in by him, as Ahmad desired. Maulavi Noor-ud-Deen was called in first. After the Bai ‘ at , Hakeem Sahib went back to Jammu to join his service, but his piety and attachment to Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as prompted him to visit Qadian again and again. Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as was also very considerate and he would often ask him to come to Qadian and stay with him. Important Events After Bai ‘ at A Christian scholar, whose name was Abdullah James, sent a set of three questions attacking the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa to Anjuman-i-Himaayat-i-Islam for response. The Anjuman sent these questions to Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian and to Hakeem Sahib for response; both responded and the Anjuman printed their replies in a booklet of seventy-two pages under the title of Three Questions by a Christian and Their Answers. The first forty-eight pages were written by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian, the next twenty pages carried the response of Hakeem Sahib and the last four pages contained the response of Maulavi Ghulam Nabi of Amristsar. In 1890, at the Divine behest, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as advanced the claim that he was the Promised Messiah and he wrote a book Fat-hi Islam. It is in this book that Hadhrat Mirza