Hazrat Ahmad — Page 8
8. HADHRAT AHMAD foundations of moral and spiritual life over the greater part of the globe. This booklet was written in Urdu by his son and Second. Successor, Sahibzada Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1889-1965) in 1916, only eight years after Ahmad's death, and was first published in English in 1917. This date should be kept in mind by the reader to obviate misunder-standing and confusion. . The author himself accomplished the fulfilment of one of the grandest prophecies of the Promised Messiah, made and widely published in February 1886. He became the Head of the. Ahmadiyya Movement in March 1914, and led the Movement, in the face of the severest opposition which on occasion swelled into bitter and brutal persecution, from one victory to another, till his death in November 1965. . Zafrulla Khan. The Hague. July 1967