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Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad Kbalifatul Masib IV A Profile Hi s Holin ess Hazrat Mir za Ta hir Ahm ad, th e pre se nt Supreme Head of the wo rldwide Ahmad~ yya Mu slim Community, was b or n on December 1 8, 1928, in Qadian, a small village in northern India. After g radu a tin g from the ]amia Ahmadiyya, th e religiou s training co llege of the Ahmadiyya Community, he spe nt some years at th e School of Oriental & African Studies of th e U ni versity of Lo ndo n, En gland. Upon hi s r etu rn t o Paki s t a n , h e formally dedicated his life to th e serv ice of I s la m. The following tw o decades saw him imm ersed in the serv i ce of th e Moveme nt in va ri ou s capaci ti es - ord in a r y worker, coordina t o r, organ ize r and head of va ri o u s institutions. situation in Pakistan forced His Holiness to move to En g land, from where he ha s si n ce been dir ec tin g the activities of th e M ovement in 14 3 co untrie s arou nd the globe. Ha zrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad is a widely tra velled man a nd a k een observe r of other cultures, groups and societies. His Friday sermons are tape-recorded a n d distributed to all Ahm adi Mu s lim s around the world r eg ul a rl y every week. The se se rm on s are also being telecast live to the r est of the world through sate llite r elays and are being watched by Ahmadi audiences in all th e co n tinents. These se rm ons serve as a guide and source of knowledge to Ahmadi Mu s lim s to conduct their lives on Islamic p rin ciples. Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad is an avid r eader In Jun e 1982, h e was el ected to his sup r eme pos1t1on, fo rm a ll y designated as KhaLifatul His H oliness Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad and takes keen interest in modern scientific knowledge. He is also a fo rceful writer in prose Masih {literally "S uccessor of the Messiah") and thus became the fourt h Successor of th e fou nd er of the Movement, Hazrat Mirza Gh ulam Ahmad. In 1984, the ex igencies of the politico-religious and, occasionally, expresses himself in verse. His books, Murder in the Name of Allah and Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues, have been widely acclaimed.