Defence Against the Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God — Page vi
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad vi The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is now established in more than two hundred countries. After the demise of the Promised Messiah as in 1908, the insti - tution of khil a fat (successorship) was established to succeed him, in fulfilment of the prophecies made in the Holy Quran and by the Holy Prophet Muhammad saw. Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad aba is the Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah as and the present head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.