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The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam iii religions was loved and devoutly followed by his approximately 10 million Ahmad i Muslim followers all over the world as their Imam, the spiritual head, being the fourth successor of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (the Promised Messiah and Mahdi as ), to which august office he was elected as Khalifatul Masih in 1982. After the promulgation of general D iy a ’'s anti Ahmadiyya Ordinance of 26 th April 1984 he had to leave his beloved country, Pakistan, and migrated to England from where he launched Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (MTA) which would (and still does) telecast its programmes 24 hours a day to the four corners of the world, making it possible for him to reach out to his followers around the world in particular and to humanity (especially the Islamic world) in general. Besides being a religious leader, he was a homeopathic physician of world fame, a highly gifted poet and a sportsman. He had his schooling in Qadian, India, and later joined the Govt. College, Lahore, Pakistan, and after graduating from J a mi‘ah Ahmadiyya, Rabwah, Pakistan with distinction, he obtained his honours degree in Arabic from the Panjab University, Lahore. From 1955 to 1957 he studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He had a divinely inspired and very deep knowledge of the Qur’an which he translated into