Shams ud Din Khan
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Shams ud Din Khan (26 January 1900 – 7 November 1969) was an early Pashtun Ahmadi in the North West Frontier province of India. (Now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan) He remained its Provincial Ameer [Head] (1969). He was a close associate of Khalifatul Masih II and III.( Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad and Mirza Nasir Ahmad) in his lifetime. He was a member of the Jama'at Khilafat Committee [Electoral College] 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.[1] He remained a member of the Majlis Shura [Consultative Assembly] of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan.
Khan was born on 26 January 1900, to Hafiz Haji Noor Muhammad (1835-1904). His father died when he was four. Noor Muhammad, had an important legacy associated with him in the history of Ahmadiyya Community. Something which ultimately led Shams ud Din Khan to convert to Ahmadiyya in 1927. He received his education from the Islamia Collegite High School at Peshawar.(1917)[2] He married three times, every time after the death of his wives. He had thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. He was son-in-law to Sahibzada Abdul Lateef, a cousin of Sahibzada Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum (1863 – 1937) (Once Chief Minister North West Frontier Province (1937) and Founder of the Islamia College Peshawar) His wife Amatul Aziz Begum (1924-2016) had been Sadar (Head) of the Women Wing Ahmadiyya Community, Lajna Imaillah North West Frontier Province.[3]