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2. Hatlhrat Maulvi Muhammad Din ( RA ) ( 1923-1926) followed Dr. Sadiq as Mis sionary in Charge. He t oo was a not ab le Companion of the Promised M essiah (. \S J Thu s. the l and of Amer i ca was b l esse d wi th two devoted Co mpanion s of the Promi-. ed Me\'> iah (AS) as pioneering mi '>Sio nari e\. Much of fladhrat Maul vi Muhamm ad Din's t ime was devoted to tourin g the coun try to ope n up new avenues of propa ga ti on of I slam and training of the new converts. 3. Sufi Mutiur Ra hman Khan Bengali ( 1928-1948 ) pro,ided a n ew mom en tum 10 the acti viti es of the mi. . ,l to the organ i 1a ti on and activ- ities of the American Ahmad i wome n. . a. Miri:a Monawar Ahmad (1947- 1948 ) was the fir st to breathe his l a'> l in the se r- \ICe of blain, in USA. On 15 September 1948, he died in a Pittsburgh ho sp ital. S ufi M. R. K. Bengali f/adh rat Khalif'atul Ma si h JI (RA) per so nall y led the pra ye rs fo r t he d ece a sed in Lah ore and wrote a spec ia l a rtic le o n his in va lu ab le se r vices and d edica tion to Islam. 5. Dr. Khalil Ahmad Nasir ( 1948-1959 ) serve d as an assis t ant to Sufi M. R. Ben gali until 1948 and then su ccee ded him as Mi ss io nar y in C h arge. He estab- lish ed the first mosq ue in the Nation 's Capita l. wh ic h was named the American Fail M osque by H adhrat Mus/ eh M au 'o ud ( RA ) and se rved as the H eadq u arters for th e Community unt il 1 994. Dr. Nas ir s tart ed the A nnual Co n ve ntion s, initiated the e l ections of th e Nationa l Exec uti ves and th e National Aux iliari es, publis h ed new book s. and l aunched the Ah m adiyya Gaze tte. He al so parti c ipat ed in seve ral inter - national re li gio us co nf e rence!>. Ch owdhery Ghulam Ya s in , Dr. Khalil A. Nasir, S ufi Mutiur Rahman Benga li and Mir7a Monawar A hm ad, Major A. Hamid