Hazrat Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen

Khalifatul Masih I (ra)

Hazrat al-Haj Maulana Hafiz Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen (ra) (1841–1914) was the first Khalifah of the Promised Messiah—Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as). He was elected to this blessed office unanimously by the Community on 27 May 1908, shortly after the demise of the Promised Messiah (as). Hazrat Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen (ra) was born in Bhera, India, and was the 34th direct male descendant of Hazrat Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra), the second Khalifah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sas). He started studying the Holy Quran at an early age and travelled far and wide in pursuit of knowledge, including Makkah and Madinah. He mastered Arabic and Hebrew, Islamic jurisprudence and philosophy, commentaries on the Holy Quran, and Persian poetry. In addition to his international renown as an Islamic scholar, he was an accomplished physician serving as the Royal Physician of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih I (ra) passed away in 1914 and was succeeded by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih II (ra).

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