Africa Speaks — Page 68
Before election to his exalted office, he worked as Principal, Jamia Ahmadiyya (Missionary College), Principal T: I. College, an affiliate of the Punjab University and as member of the Punjab University Senate, Academic Council and various other committees. He also headed the Central Anjuman Ahmadiyya, (the main executive of the Ahmadiyya Community), Khuddamul Ahmadiyya (Youth Organi sation) and Ansarullah (Organisation of Elders). Scholar; sportsman; thinker; educationist; and leader; he keeps himself busy with the Community's spiritual, moral and educational programmes which have multiplied manifold since his election as third Caliph of the Promised Messiah in 1965. An early riser, his daily work starts immediately after dawn and keeps him busy till late in the night. He himself attends to his daily mail which keeps pouring in from all over the world. He is the promised grand-son of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement. His election as Caliph fulfills a prophecy of the Talmud which mentions "the throne of the Messiah descending to his grand-son". Dynamic Head of a dynamic missionary movement with centres all over the globe and with schools and colleges in Africa and elsewhere he believes that the emancipation of mankind lies in return to the one and only one God and his Message. Elected for life, he is the voice articulate of the age and is in direct communication with God. During his visit to Europe in 1967, he warned the West that the world was fast heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe. Unless the West paused in its craze for physical power and material domination it was bound to destroy itself as foretold by the Holy Ouran and earlier scriptures. 69