Life-of-Muhammad

About the AuthorThe Promised son ra of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as ;the manifest Sign of Allah, the Almighty; the Word of God whoseadvent was prophesied by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and thePromised Messiah as as well as the past Prophets; a Star in thespiritual firmament for the like of which the world has to wait forhundreds of years to appear; the man of God, crowned with aspiritual halo from which radiated such scintillating rays of light aswould instil spiritual life into his followers and captivate and enthralthose who were not fortunate to follow him; an orator of suchphenomenal quality that his speeches would make his audience stayput for hours on end, come rain or shine, deep into the late hours ofthe evenings while words flowed from his tongue like honeydripping into their ears to reach the depths of their soul to fill themwith knowledge and invigorate their faith; the ocean of Divine andsecular knowledge; the Voice Articulate of the age; without doubtthe greatest genius of the 20 th century; a man of phenomenalintelligence and memory; an epitome of the qualities of leadership;the one whose versatility cannot be comprehended—Hadrat MirzaBashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad ra (1889-1965), Muslih Mau‘ud (thePromised Reformer) was the eldest son and the second successor(Khalifah) of the Promised Messiah as . He took charge of theAhmadiyya Jama‘at at the young age of 24 when the Jama‘at wasstill in its infancy and nourished it to its maturity for more than 50years with his spiritual guidance, prayers, tears, toil and blood. Notonly did he fortify the foundations of the community laid down bythe Promised Messiah as , but expanded the structure of the Jama‘at byinitiating various schemes, organizations, and programs taking hisinspiration from the Promised Messiah as and under the Divineguidance. His foremost concern, to which he devoted all his life, wasto accomplish the mission of the Promised Messiah—the dauntingtask of spreading the message of true Islam in its pristine purity tothe ends of the world. To achieve this, he initiated Tahrik-e-Jadidthrough which spread, and continues to spread, the missionary workall over the globe. His acute intelligence, keen intellect, deep andextensive scholarship and above all his God-given knowledgeiii