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Deliverance of Jesus from the Cross. BIBLICAL EVIDENCE by. B. A. RAFIQ. Bashir Ahmad Rafiq is the Imam of the London Mosque, the first mosque established in London. He was born in 1931 in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He graduated from the University of the Punjab in 1953 and then undertook a five year course at the Missionary Training College, Rabwah,. Pakistan. This course included intensive and detailed study of comparative religion, contemporary religious movements, Islamic thought and jurispudence. . In 1959 he was assigned to the London Mosque as missionary and deputy Imam. In 1964 he was appointed Imam of the London. Mosque, which is the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Britain. There are more than 10,000 adherents of the Movement throughout Britain. He served as Private Secretary to Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III in 1971/2. . Mr. Rafiq speaks a number of languages. He is the author of a number of books on various aspects of Islamic teaching. . Shortly after arrival in Britain he founded the Muslim Herald, a monthly journal now in its 18th year of publication, which is noted as a forum of Islamic thought. 89