The Green Announcement was written by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian^(as), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, to remove the doubts and misgivings that had arisen out of the death of his son who has come to be known as Bashir the First. Bashir was born on 7th August 1887 and died on 4th November 1888. Previously the Promised Messiah^(as) had announced, on the basis of Divine revelations, that God had promised to grant him a son who would possess extraordinary qualities,...