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About the Author Hadrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad rh M. A. (Oxon)– 1909-1982–of blessed memory, the third Manifestation of Divine Providence, the Imam of the International Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at, the Voice Articulate of God, sign and fulfilment of His Promise and the Promised Grandson was elected as the third successor (Khalifa) of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as on November 8, 1965 on the demise of his great and illustrious father, the second successor of the Promised Messiah as , Hadrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad ra , Al-Musleh Mau‘ u d (the Promised Reformer). He occupied this exalted spiritual station for seventeen years till his death, and as the Promised Grandson of the Promised Messiah as , he was a Sign of Allah Who bestowed on him His special Graces and Favours from the time of his birth to his death. With his piety, grace and qualities of head and heart and of leadership, his was a larger than life personality. Earlier on as an alumnus of Govt. College (Lahore), Balliol (Oxford), as founder member and Principle of T. I. College, as Head of Khud a m and An sa r, as member of Academic Council and Senate of the Punjab University and as Patron of sports like Badminton, Basketball, Mountaineering, Rowing etc. , he transformed and left his mark on whatever he touched. All the time the steel was being tempered as it were. Soon after his assuming the Supreme office, the