Mirza Nasir Ahmad

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Khalifat ul-Masih III.
Signature of Mirza Nasir Ahmad

Mirza Nasir Ahmad ( Urdu مرزا ناصر احمد DMG Mīrzā Nāṣir Aḥmad ; * November 9, 1909 in Qadian ; † June 9, 1982 in Islamabad ) was elected third caliphate ul-Massih on November 8, 1965 . He was the son of his predecessor Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad .

Life

Mirza Nasir Ahmad completed memorizing the Koran at the age of thirteen and became a Hafiz . He later graduated from Oxford University with a Masters degree . He married Mansura Begum in August 1934. After the death of his first wife, he married Dr. Tahira. Mirza Nasir Ahmad was particularly active in the field of education in the Jamaat. So in 1938 he became professor at the Jamia Ahmadiyya (Theological College), and in June 1939 its director.

Caliphate

Mirza Nasir Ahmad was elected Caliphate ul-Massih on November 8, 1965 and immediately after the election he set up a special fund, the Fazle-Umar Foundation. With his help, the continuation of the work of his predecessor, Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, should be ensured. The foundation has also financed the establishment and maintenance of a central library in Rabwah.

Visits abroad

The Basharat Mosque

Europe

On his first trip to Europe in 1967, he gave his keynote speech “A message of peace, a word of warning at the same time” in London. On July 31, 1967, he opened the Nusrat-Jehan Mosque in Copenhagen, the first mosque in the Nordic countries . In 1976 he traveled to Europe and America. On June 2 and 3, 1978, a "Conference for the Salvation of Jesus from the Cross" will be held in London. His last trip abroad was in 1980. In this trip, among other things, he laid the foundation stone for the first mosque on Spanish soil after the Muslims were expelled from Spain over 500 years ago. He coined the motto of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community “love for all, hate for none”.

Africa

During his trip through West Africa in 1970, Mirza Nasir Ahmad founded the foundation of the “Nusrat Jehan Plan”. With this plan schools and clinics should be opened in the African countries in order to make a social and cultural contribution to the development of the continent.

Pakistan

In 1966 Mirza Nasir Ahmad laid the foundation stone for the Masjid-e-Aqsa in Rabwah , the world's largest mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. After the anti-Ahmadiyya uprisings of 1974, Mirza Nasir Ahmad and four other Ahmadi scholars faced an eleven-day judicial investigation by the National Assembly. Ultimately, the Ahmadiyya was declared on September 21, 1974 by the Pakistani parliament of a non-Muslim religious community.

death

He died on June 9, 1982 at 0.45 a.m. in Bait-ul-Fazl, Islamabad, at the age of 73. On the same day he was buried in the Bahishti Maqbarah ( Rabwah ). The funeral prayer was chaired by his successor, Mirza Tahir Ahmad , who was elected fourth Khalifatul Masih on the same day.

Works

See also

Web links

Commons : Mirza Nasir Ahmad  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement In Islam . P. 81
  2. ^ A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement In Islam . P. 94
  3. ↑ Address on July 28, 1967 at Wandsworth Town Hall, London. Verlag der Islam, 1994, ISBN 978-3-921458-27-3
  4. ^ David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg: Islam outside the Arab world . St. Martin's Press, New York 1999, pp. 392 .
  5. ^ A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement In Islam . P. 92
  6. ^ Yvonne Y. Haddad , Jane I. Smith: Mission to America. Five Islamic sectarian communities in North America. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 1993, p. 49
  7. ^ A Brief History of Ahmadiyya Movement In Islam . P. 89
personal data
SURNAME Ahmad, Mirza Nasir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-Pakistani 3rd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Qadian
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1982
Place of death Islamabad