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176 – the story of al-haj Rashid ahmad american the uncle] said you are divorced, then he has the responsibility of proving it. You have to do nothing. ” Huzoor rta set up a committee headed by the Am ū r-e-Amma, S a hibzada Mans ū r Ahmad s a hib, who was the grandson of the Promised Messiah as and the father of our present leader, the Fifth Khal ī fah aba , Hadrat Mirz ā Masroor Ahmad. The committee also included Muft i Saif-ur-Rahman, the Wak ī l-ul-Qan ū n, and a missionary named Mubashir who was sent to Africa and was known for his expertise on A ha d ī th. In this way, the Third Khal ī fah rta had covered all aspects of the issue including perspectives from the Holy Qur’ ā n (Muft i ), H ad ī th (Mubashir) and the secular law (Wak ī l-ul- Qan ū n). The committee was to hear testimony and judge according to their knowledge. Major Abdul Hameed was one of the witnesses who testified to the committee. He was sent to New York as a missionary by the Third Khal ī fah rta , and was later transferred to do missionary work at Dayton, Ohio in the United States. He had never been through J ā mi‘ah for missionary training, and stands as another example of a missionary who was commissioned by the Khal ī fah rta not the J ā mi‘ah institution. He was also married to the sister of my wife’s mother. Major Abdul Hameed testified that I was divorced on the grounds of khud-ba-khud , which in Urdu means naturally or by itself. He stated that the divorce was effective and automatic when my wife decided to leave me and go back to Pakistan, and further fortified his case stating that I did not object to her leaving. The Am ū r-e-Amma officer stated that he could not accept this argument because he had in his file the case of a young woman who claimed to hate her husband, could not live with him and would