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About the Author Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad ra was born to the Promised Messiah as on 20 April 1893, according to the Divine prophecy: Qamarul- Anbiy a ’ [The Moon of the Prophets] will arrive and your affair will become manifest. Soon a son will be born to you and grace will come close to you. He passed his matriculation with distinction in 1910 and received an M. A. in Arabic in 1916, in compliance with the wish of the Promised Messiah as. With the blessings of Allah, the prayers of the Promised Messiah as , the guidance given to him by his elder brother, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra , and his God-given abilities, he was able to serve the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at throughout his life in vari- ous capacities. He was a great religious scholar, a prolific writer, and his books, articles, and speeches are easily comprehensible to an average reader. He wrote on numerous topics; his magnum opus is S i rat Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n [The Life and Character of the Seal of the Prophets]. S i ratul-Mahd i , Silsil a -e-Ahmadiyya,