Khalifatul-Masih I

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150 HAZRAT RA 1911, with the permission of Hazrat Khalifatul- Masih Ira, Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmud Ahmad founded the Anjuman Ansarullah. Hazrat ra remarked: 'I am also one of your Ansarullah. ' Hazrat ra set up a small dispensary which later grew into a hospital. In 1918 it was named Maulana Noor-ud-Deen Memorial Hospital and it continues to serve humanity even to this day. Since the al-Aqsa Mosque was very small, women could not join in the Friday Prayers. In his time, the work of extending al-Aqsa Mosque was completed and on Friday, 21 January 1910, Ahmadi women, including Hazrat Amma Jaan, also offered Prayers in that mosque. The British Government announced that a coronation ceremony would be held in Delhi on 12 December 1911 to proclaim his Majesty George V as Emperor of India. Hazrat ra decided to request the king that Muslim employees