Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 141
THE PROMISED MESSIAH PASSES AWAY are sincerely convinced that all present and future members of the Ahmadiyya Community should take the pledge of spiritual allegiance, in the name of Ahmad, to the first emigrant Hazrat Hakeem Noor- ud-Deen ra who is the most learned and most virtuous of us all and is the most devoted and oldest friend of Hazrat Imam who held him up as an excellent example as he said: How good would it be if every member of the Community were a Noor-ud-Deenra; So would it be if every heart were filled with the light of the Faith. Hazrat Maulana Sahib's orders will be as binding upon us as the orders of the Promised Messiah as. 141 In reply to this, Hazrat Maulawi Hakeem Noor- ud-Deen a delivered a speech before the crowd in which he said: 'Consider my past life. I have never