Life-of-Muhammad

About the Author
The Promised son ra of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as ;
the manifest Sign of Allah, the Almighty; the Word of God whose
advent was prophesied by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and the
Promised Messiah as as well as the past Prophets; a Star in the
spiritual firmament for the like of which the world has to wait for
hundreds of years to appear; the man of God, crowned with a
spiritual halo from which radiated such scintillating rays of light as
would instil spiritual life into his followers and captivate and enthral
those who were not fortunate to follow him; an orator of such
phenomenal quality that his speeches would make his audience stay
put for hours on end, come rain or shine, deep into the late hours of
the evenings while words flowed from his tongue like honey
dripping into their ears to reach the depths of their soul to fill them
with knowledge and invigorate their faith; the ocean of Divine and
secular knowledge; the Voice Articulate of the age; without doubt
the greatest genius of the 20 th century; a man of phenomenal
intelligence and memory; an epitome of the qualities of leadership;
the one whose versatility cannot be comprehended—Hadrat Mirza
Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad ra (1889-1965), Muslih Mau‘ud (the
Promised Reformer) was the eldest son and the second successor
(Khalifah) of the Promised Messiah as . He took charge of the
Ahmadiyya Jama‘at at the young age of 24 when the Jama‘at was
still in its infancy and nourished it to its maturity for more than 50
years with his spiritual guidance, prayers, tears, toil and blood. Not
only did he fortify the foundations of the community laid down by
the Promised Messiah as , but expanded the structure of the Jama‘at by
initiating various schemes, organizations, and programs taking his
inspiration from the Promised Messiah as and under the Divine
guidance. His foremost concern, to which he devoted all his life, was
to accomplish the mission of the Promised Messiah—the daunting
task of spreading the message of true Islam in its pristine purity to
the ends of the world. To achieve this, he initiated Tahrik-e-Jadid
through which spread, and continues to spread, the missionary work
all over the globe. His acute intelligence, keen intellect, deep and
extensive scholarship and above all his God-given knowledge
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