The Noble Son — Page 132
– FULFILMENT OF A GRAND PROPHECY 132 founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Syria and Palestine. He established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Kababir, Haifa (now in Israel) and laid the foundation of Mahmood Mosque. Maulana Shams ra later returned to India in 1931. He was appointed the Secretary of the All-India Kashmir Committee, of which Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II ra was elected President and Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a member. He later married and had two children. He was then sent to England in 1936 as the Ahmadiyya Muslim missionary at the London Mosque. In 1946 Maulana Shams was called back to the Ahmadiyya Headquarters in Qadian to serve in various capacities. Maulana Shams ra also proposed the name Rabwah for the Ahmadiyya Community’s new Headquarters in Pakistan, which was approved by Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II ra. He was one of only three recipients given the prestigious Khalid-e-Ahmadiyyat title by Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II ra , reminiscent of the great Muslim general Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed ra. Further, Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih II ra indicated that one of the peripheral interpretations of the Holy Prophet’s prophecy that in the latter days the Sun would rise from the West was fulfilled in the person of Shams (Shams meaning sun in Arabic), when he returned from the West to the East. Maulana Shams ra served as Nazir Islah-o-Irshad (in charge of missionary work in Pakistan) until his death on 13th October 1966. He held various positions until that time including: Secretary of Bahishti Maqbarah, Managing Director of Al-Shirkat-ul-Islamiyyah, Secretary Majlis Iftaa, and President of Majlis Kaar Pardaaz. His full biography has been published under the title of Hayaat-e-Shams.