Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 100
100 HAZRAT RA me can come after 20 March, and if there is some difficulty in visiting Ludhiana, then they could come to Qadian after 25 March for Bai'at. In addition to these announcements, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as, the Promised Messiah, also individually informed those who were close to him. He also wrote one such letter to Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra. This was the news Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra had been waiting for since the day he had met the Promised Messiah as! He immediately agreed to take Bai'at, and fully and wholeheartedly accepted this claim of the Promised Messiah as. He arrived in Ludhiana, and it was at the house of Hazrat Sufi Ahmad Jaan, the father-in-law of Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra, that on 23 March, 1889 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as accepted the Bai'at. Hazrat Maulawi Noor-ud-Deen ra became the first person to offer his Bai'at.