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− Hadrat Khalifatul Masih V (1950- ) aba ± ± − − ± (Period of Khilafat: April 22, 2003 - ) − Hadrat Mirza Masrur Ahmad was elected upon the aba Khalifah ± ± − − ± − demise of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IV on April 22, 2003. Maulana Ataul rh ± ± − − ± Mujeeb Rashed, Secretary, has made the following Majlis Shura − announcement regarding election of the in the Khalifatul Masih V aba − − Weekly International of April 25, 2003: Alfadl ± "It is announced for the information of the members of the Ahmadiyya that a meeting of the (Electoral Jama'at Majlis Intikhab ± − − College), appointed by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II , was held on Tuesday, ra ± ± − − ± 22 April 2003, after Prayers, at the Fadl Mosque, nd Maghrib and Isha’ − ± London. The meeting was presided by Chaudhary Hameedullah Sahib. The members of the Electoral College took an oath of allegiance to Khilafat-i- − Ahmadiyya and then elected Hadrat Mirza Masrur Ahmad as aba Khalifatul ± ± ± − − ± − Masih. All members of the Electoral College took initiation at the hands of − Hadrat Mirza Masrur Ahmad Then permission was , Khalifatul Masih V. aba ± ± − − ± − − granted to the general community members waiting outside the mosque to come inside the mosque. Thus, over 10,000 members, who were waiting outside, around the mosque, took initiation at the hands of Hadrat Mirza ± ± − Masrur Ahmad. May God Almighty accept and aba aba , Khalifatul Masih V − ± − − bless this election. . " Amin − − Hadrat Mirza Masrur Ahmad , who was born , Khalifatul Masih V aba ± ± − − ± − − on September 15, 1950, is a son of Hadrat Mirza Mansur Ahmad and ± ± − − ± Sahibzadi Nasira Begum Sahiba, a great-grandson of the Promised ± − − − ± Messiah and Mahdi , a paternal grandson of Hadrat Mirza Sharif Ahmad as − ± ± − − ± and a maternal grandson of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II In 1977, he ra. ± ± − − ± devoted his life and worked from 1977 to 1985 in Ghana. First as Principal of Ahmadiyya Secondary Schools and then as Manager, Ahmadiyya ± ± Agricultural Farm. Before becoming Khalifatul Masih, he was serving the − − ± Jama'at as Nazir A‘la and Amir Muqami in Rabwah, Pakistan. − − ± − − − − 317