Background
Shams ud Din Khan was born January 26, 1900, to Hafiz Haji Noor Muhammad (1835-1904). His father died when he was four.
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Now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan) He remained its Provincial Ameer (1969). His father Hafiz Haji Noor Muhammad, went to Qadian in 1901. In fact Noor Muhammad had taken all this trouble, in his old age, and took the journey from Kotha Gari Amazai,District Swabi to Qadian to testify and see for himself the fulfillment of a vision of his own spiritual master Syed Ameer Sahib of Khota (1800-1879) Swabi.
This witness of Noor Muhammad, said to be a vision, of Syed Ameer sahib of Kotha (1800-1879), and has been recorded in his book ‘Tohfa e Golarviyya’ by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1902).
Noor Muhammad narrated his master’s vision:
“I am now living in someone else’s Era. … The Mahdi is born, but the time of his appearance has not yet come….
His tongue is Punjabi…”
lieutenant is reported that Shams ud Din’s father did not accept Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, he was old and weak, and he could not go back to his home and died at Nainital India in 1904. This strong emotional legacy must have touched Shams ud Din.
He read the book ‘Tohfa e Golarviyya’ in 1927, with all the transforming effects of his father being mentioned by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, his journey to Qadian India and never returning home, leaving Shams ud Din an orphan at age four.
He took Bay"ah at the hands of Khalifatul Masih II in 1927. He served as the Provincial Head of the Jamaat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa till his death on the February 14, 1969. He was buried at Rabwah in the Bahishti Maqbara (English: The Heavenly Graveyard).
Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad Khalifatul Masih III offered his funeral prayers and personally participated in the funeral procession.
Membership
He was a member of the Jama’at Khilafat Committee and was one of the two proposers of the name of Mirza Nasir Ahmad at the time of his Election to the seat of Khilafat in November 1965.
