Hakeem Noor-ud-Din
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| Caliph of the Messiah Amir al-Mu'minin |
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Khalifatul Masih I circa 1878
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| Reign | 27 May 1908 – 13 March 1914 | ||||
| Successor | Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad | ||||
| Born | 8 January 1841 Bhera, Sikh Empire |
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| Died | 13 March 1914 (aged 73) Qadian, Punjab, British India |
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| Burial | Bahishti Maqbara, Qadian, India | ||||
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| Issue | 7 children | ||||
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| Father | Haafiz Ghulam Rasool | ||||
| Mother | Noor Bakht | ||||
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| Al-Hajj Maulana Hafiz Hakim Noor-ud-Din |
Hakīm Noor-ud-Dīn (Arabic: الحاج مولانا حافظ حکیم نور الدین) (c. 1841 – March 13, 1914) was a close companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, and was elected as his first successor on May 27, 1908, a day after his death, becoming Khalifatul Masih I (Arabic: خليفة المسيح الأول, khalīfatul masīh al-awwal), head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was a renowned physician, and was also an active writer, theologian, and expert in Arabic and Hebrew.
Royal Physician to the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for many years, his extensive travels included a long stay in the cities of Mecca and Medina in pursuit of religious knowledge. His lectures on Quranic exegesis and Hadith were one of the main attractions for visitors to Qadian after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. His sermons and other discourses have been collected into a four volume exegesis called Haqaiq al-Furqan. Many prominent leaders were his students, including Mirza Mahmood Ahmad (Second Caliph) who wrote Tafsir-e-Kabir and Tafsir-e-Saghir, as well as Maulvi Muhammad Ali and Maulvi Sher Ali, who were among the earliest translators of the Quran into English and commentators of the Quran. He is known for his rebuttals to objections and criticisms raised by Christians and the Arya Samaj against Islam. Mawlana Noor-ud-Din was the first person to give bay'ah (pledge of allegiance) to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. After Ghulam Ahmad's death, he was unanimously chosen as his successor and is credited for maintaining unity within the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after the death of its founder.
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