Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page xvii
Preface xvii and some material has also been added. The additions or excisions were made to enhance the true greatness of a person who had always been an inspiration and generated an implicit and total trust in the Divine Grace. The work that I began in 1992 as a translation became a mission and, eventually, I fell in love with this magnanimous person who introduced us to his Four Loves. Reading an account of a noble person is in itself an ennobling experience. Contemporary readers can visualize him by bringing to our eyes the most gracious personality of our beloved Imam, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV rta , whose Friday sermons are now seen and heard around the world - a divine phenomenon. It is the distinction of the fourth Khilaafat that the modern medium of dissemination, television became the effective tool of tabligh. The first time the photo of the Promised Messiah was flashed on a TV screen in Toronto, or for that matter, anywhere in the world, was on December 12, 1982, when the Editor of this book, working under the direction of the then Ameer and Missionary-in-Charge of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam for Canada, Mr. Munir-ud-Din Shams, acquired free TV time for a monthly telecast of the Movement, little knowing that on April 1, 1996, our beloved Imam, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, would launch a world- wide television channel, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya. Mr. Naseem Mahdi, the current Ameer and Missionary-in- Charge, played a significant role in setting up an Earth Station in Washington, D. C. , USA, for North American countries. In this book, the name of Muhammad, the Holy Prophet of Islam, has been followed by a symbol sa for the salutation