Tadhkirah — Page 984
984 Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra , as Mirz a Man su r Ahmad was during the Khilafat of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih III rht and me. He was appointed as Am i r forty-five times. During the present period of my migration, he served as Am i r for fourteen years continuously. That is contrary to expectation. No one could imagine that anyone could serve as Am i r for so long during the life of a Khalifah. The office of the Local Am i r of the headquarters is normally held by the Khalifah himself. When he is present the Local President runs the day to day affairs, but the Khalifah holds the office of the Local Am i r. Thus, for all practical purposes, he took my seat, in accordance with my directive, and handled all affairs with great courage. About the revelation the Promised Messiah as says: The other person said: He has yet to be a Qadi. This was the voice heard along with the revelation. The Promised Messiah as said: Q adi is he who upholds the truth and refutes falsehood. This characteristic was present in Mirz a Man su r Ahmad in an unusual way. I have hardly seen any one so bold as him in refuting falsehood. Here I am reminded of another revelation. In a vision the Promised Messiah as said to Mirz a Shar i f Ahmad ra : (Now be seated in my seat and I shall go). Obviously, this was not fulfilled in Mirz a Shar i f Ahmad ra …. It was fulfilled in Mirz a Man su r Ahmad. I am at this time the vicegerent of the Promised Messiah as and Mirz a Shar i f is not among us. The office of Am i r, which I held, was held by Mirz a Man su r Ahmad and exactly fulfilled the words: He certainly had a status that is manifested by the revelations of the Promised Messiah as. History has demonstrated that he was a blessed personage whom had the status of the spiritual son of the Promised Messiah as. Whatever the Promised Messiah as saw about his son was fulfilled in the son of that son. Now that I have appointed Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the son of Mirz a Man su r Ahmad, as the N az ir A‘l a and Local Am i r, I thought of the revelation as if the Promised Messiah as was saying that once again now. All these matters assure us that the soul of Mirz a Man su r Ahmad was a noble soul. He was a brave man—a drawn sword to support Khilafat. … Now I ask the entire Jam a ‘at to pray for Mirz a Man su r Ahmad, and thereafter, for Mirza Masroor Ahmad, that Allah the