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22 of all religious faiths were invited. An insistent invitation was also extended to the Promised Messiah, with solemn assurances that during the proceedings care would be taken to see that the susceptibilities of no one were injured or disturbed. In response to this invitation the Promised Messiah wrote a Paper on Islam to be read in the Conference on his behalf, and sent a deputation for the purpose under the leadership of Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud-Din, who later became first Khalifa and Successor of the Promised Messiah. In the course of the sessions, however, when it came to the turn of the representative of the Arya Samaj, he read a paper extremely vituperous against the Holy Prophet Muhammad. When the Ahmadiyya deputation returned to Qadian at the end of the Conference, and a report thereof was presented to the Promised Messiah, he was highly incensed when he heard how the promise had been violated and insults offered to the Holy Founder of Islam. With great indignation he said to Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud Din, and to other members of the deputation, that they should not have remained sitting there quietly, listening to those insults- they should have walked out with outraged feelings. And then the Promised Messiah recited the following verse of the Holy Quran with great feeling and emotion: “O ye Believers! When you find the signs of God being ridiculed, do not sit in such company, until they engage themselves in some other topic. ” ( Surah Nissa ) Hazrat Maulvi Noor-ud-Din was present on the occasion when report of the Conference was presented to the Promised Messiah, and when he expressed his indignation on the point mentioned above. In great contrition of mind, he listened silently, downcast, his head hanging low. In fact, all those present were similarly cut up in feelings in view of the mistake made, the pain it had caused to the Promised Messiah, and the rebuke he had administered. ( Seeratul Mahdi, Part I ) 7 Most of our friends know K. B Mirza Sultan Ahmad. He was the eldest son of the Promised Messiah by his first wife. He was in the Civil Service, where he retired on pension from the rank and position of a Deputy Commissioner; and naturally his experience in life was vast, and of a varied nature. All through the lifetime of the Promised Messiah, Mirza Sultan Ahmad did not join the Ahmadiyya Movement: he did not take bai’at and remained aloof. In fact, he maintained his relations with those members of the family of the Promised Messiah who were opposed to him