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vii About the Author Hadrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rh (1928-2003) was a man of God, the voice articulate of the age and a great orator. He was a deeply learned scholar of phenomenal intelligence, a keen student of comparative religions and a prolific and versatile writer. He was loved and devoutly followed by his more than 10 million Ahmadi Muslim followers all over the world as their Imam, the spiritual head, being the fourth successor of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as ), to which august office he was elected as Khalifatul Masih in 1982. After the promulgation of General Zia-ul-Haq’s anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance of 26 th April 1984, he had to leave his beloved country, Pakistan, and migrated to England from where, among many other achievements, he launched Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International (MTA) which would (and still does) telecast its programmes 24 hours a day to the four corners of the world. Besides being a religious leader, he was a homeopathic physician of world fame, a highly gifted poet and a sportsman. He received his schooling in Qadian, India, and later joined the Govt. College, Lahore, Pakistan. After graduating from J a mi‘ah Ahmadiyya, Rabwah,