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EXHIBIT 4 HADRAT KHALIFATUL-MASIḤ III Hadrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmadta (1909–1982) was Khalifatul- Masih III, or the third successor to the Promised Messiah as. He was the grandson of the Promised Messiah as and the son of Hadrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masiḥ II ra. His early education was both religious and secular. By the age of thirteen, he had committed the Holy Quran to memory. He was enrolled at the Madrasah Ahmadiyyah, Qadian, and graduated with honours in July 1929. He then went through his post-sec- ondary education and by 1934, graduated from Government College, Lahore. Thereafter, he proceeded with his postgraduate studies in England, where he obtained a Master's Degree of Arts in Egyptology from Balliol College, University of Oxford. In November 1938, he returned to Qadian, where he was appointed a professor at Jāmi'ah Ahmadiyyah. In 1939, he was appointed the Principal, a role he retained for five years. From May 1944 to November 1965, he was the Principal of Talim-ul- Islam College. Over these years, he witnessed the growing reli- gious intolerance in Pakistan, and he was temporarily imprisoned during the anti-Ahmadiyya riots in 1953. On 8 November 1965, he was elected as Khalifatul-Masiḥ III after the demise of Ḥaḍrat Khalifatul-Masih IIa. After his election