Khalifatul Masih I circa 1899Caliphate:
- May 27, 1908 to March 13, 1914
- Succeeded by : Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad
Personal Information:
- Name : Al-Hajj Maulana Hafiz Hakim Noor-ud-Din
- Born : 1841 (birth date unknown)
- Died : March 13, 1914 (72-73)
- Resting place : Bahishti Maqbara
- Spouse(s) : Fatima Sahiba, Sughra Begum
- Children : 7
- Parents : Haafiz Ghulam Rasool[1], Noor Bakht
Al-Hajj Maulana Hafiz Hakim Noor-ud-Din (Urdu: الحاج مولانا حافظ حکیم نور الدین) (born 1841 in Bhera, Punjab, died March 13, 1914 in Qadian) was Khalifatul Masih I, Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and a renowned physician, writer and theologian, scholar of Arabic and Hebrew. He was elected as the successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on 27 May 1908, a day after his death.
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. He also wrote rebuttals to Christian and Arya Samaj allegations against Islam. Mawlana Noor-ud-Din was the first person to swear a pledge of allegiance (bay'ah) to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad when he claimed to be divinely appointed to take the pledge and establish a community on 23 March 1889. After Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's demise, Hakeem Noor-ud-Din was unanimously voted as his successor, in this capacity he is credited for maintaining unity within the Ahmadiyya community after the death of its founder.
He was youngest of seven brothers and two sisters and was 34th in direct lineal descent from Umar Ibn al-Khattab, the Second Caliph of Islam. His family had a tradition of memorizing the Quran.
