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26 hazrat rta had kidnapped him. In this way Allah proved the innocence of the Ahmadis by revealing they had nothing to do with Aslam Qureshi’s disappearance. One year later on 23 March 1989, the Ahmadiyya Jama’at cele- brated its 100 year anniversary called a Centenary, because a hundred years earlier on 23 March 1889 the Promised Messiah as had taken the first bai‘at and established the Ahmadiyya Community. In the span of a hundred years, the call that was made in the small town of Qadian by a lone individual had now reached many countries of the world. God, through victory upon victory, delivered His verdict on the prayer duel in favour of Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad rta and the Ahmadiyya Jama’at for the whole world to see.