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178 – the story of al-haj Rashid ahmad american occurred. The case was finally decided upon and the committee exonerated me as legally married to my wife. Thereafter, my wife and I resumed a normal marital lifestyle. However, the issue was not over. When I visited the Third Khal ī fah rta , he congratulated me upon my victory, but I told him that it was not finished. The uncle who came in the home claiming that I needed a chaperone, was now suing me. He claimed that I now owed him for the last 12 years of support that he had been providing my wife, but he never pursued me on this issue. MY SECOND WIFE During the period I was alienated from my wife I decided to pursue companionship with another Ahmadi lady with whom I am still married today. Her name is Az i za Ahmad and she is the daughter of two pioneers of Ahmadiyyat in St. Louis, Usm a n and Amina Kh a lid (Az i za and I are standing together in the top picture on the following page). We were married in 1962 (my nik ah picture is on the following page on the bottom, where I am sitting in between Maul aw i Shukr-Il a h i and Az i za’s father), and we have four children who are all grown today: Mojahida, Mun i r, Wad u d, and Ghaniyya. Az i za’s parents were introduced to Islam by a non-Ahmadi Arab Muslim. They accepted Islam but later became Ahmadi Muslims after Maul aw i Shukr-Il a h i introduced it to them.