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by the Promised Messiah as , but expanded the structure of the Jam a ‘at by initiating various schemes, organizations, and programs taking his inspiration from the Promised Messiah as and under Divine guidance. His foremost concern, to which he devoted all his life, was to fulfil the mission of the Promised Messiah as —the daunting task of spreading the message of true Islam in its pristine purity to the ends of the world. To achieve this, he initiated the Ta h r i k-e-Jad i d through which spread, and continues to spread, the community’s missionary work all over the globe. His acute intelligence, keen intellect, deep and extensive scholarship and above all his God-given knowl- edge enabled him to produce a vast corpus of writings, speeches etc. His oeuvre is so vast that it will take many years to see the light of publication. When the Promised Messiah as fervently prayed to God to grant him a Sign in support of Islam, Allah gave him the good tidings about this son of his and said: "…He will be extremely intelligent … and will be filled with secular and spiritual knowledge … Son, delight of the heart, high ranking, no- ble; a manifestation of the First and the Last, of the True and the High; as if Allah has de- scended from heaven. Behold a light cometh. We shall pour our spirit into him…" [Revela- tion of 20 th February 1886] * * Translation from Urdu by Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan in his English translation of Tadhkira—the book containing dreams, visions and verbal revelations vouch- safed to the Promised Messiah as. [Publisher]