Life of The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 17
17 1. Ismat (15 April 1886 to July 1891) 2. Bashir I (7 August 1887 to 4 November 1888) 3. Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmad ra (12 January 1889 to 7 November 1965): He became Khalifatul-Masih II in 1914. He was the same Promised Son about whose birth God Almighty informed the Promised Messiah as. After a forty-day period of continuous prayers, the news of the brith of this son was given in the form of a prophecy known as the Prophecy of the Promised Son. In this prophecy, God promised a son to the Promised Messiah as who would be filled with secular and spiritual knowledge. The destinies of nations would depend on him. He was given the title Musleh Mau’ood, meaning a reformer whose advent has been promised. The fifty-two signs relating to him in the prophecy were fulfilled in his fifty-two years of khilafat. He is also known by the name of Fazl-e-Umar. 4. Shaukat (1891 to 1892) 5. Mirza Bashir Ahmad ra (20 April 1893 to 2 September 1963): In a revelation to the Promised Messiah as, God revealed that he was given the title Qamarul-Anbiyaa (Moon of the Prophets).