Where Did Jesus Die? — Page xii
? xii During the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, he was appointed the Ameer of the last Ahmadi caravan departing from Qadian to Pakistan. Upon reaching the outskirts of Qadian, he halted the caravan, looked back at Qadian, and recited the same words that the Hoy Prophet saw recited as he departed from Mecca’s city limits. Maulana Shams 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, reminiscent of the great Muslim general Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed ra, the ‘Sword of Allah’, whose unsur- passable skills in warfare would not allow him to achieve martyr- dom despite hundreds of duels he engaged in during the battles he led against the Apostates, Romans, and Persians. In addition, the Second Khalifah ra indicated that one of the peripheral interpreta- tions 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 served as Nazir Islaho-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. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife and seven children. He had written approximately seventy books in Urdu, Arabic, and English.