Saeed Ahmad Khan

Saeed Ahmad Khan (* 1900 ; † November 15, 1996 in Lahore ) was only a supporter and from November 15, 1981 to November 15, 1996 also the head ( emir ) of the Ahmadiyya Andschuman Ischat-i-Islam Lahore (AAIIL), an Islamic organization Denomination .

Ahmad was born in the Hazara area of ​​the North West Frontier of British India (now part of Pakistan ). His father, Muhammad Yahya, and his uncle, Muhammad Yaqub, were already members of the Ahmadiyya movement . He was the last AAIIL person to take the baiat personally at the hand of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , at the age of eight. He went to Qadian with his father in December 1907 and stayed there for three months.

education

He returned to study at the Ahmadiyya School in Qadian, known as Taleem-ul-Islam High School, in 1912 and was granted permission the next year. In 1914, after the demise of Hakim Nuur ud-Din , Khalifat ul-Massih I, the Ahmadiyya movement split and Ahmad returned home to continue his education in the provincial city of Abbottabad. He studied at King Edward's Medical College, Lahore , and graduated in medicine in 1925. He was the first Muslim in college to receive a medal for his studies. In Lahore, he followed Muhammad Ali's readings / explanations / interpretations on the Koran and became his disciple / disciple. He became the first president of the Ahmadi Young Men’s Association. He was a Hafiz of the Koran and mastered Classical Arabic / Old Arabic.

Work and works

After completing his studies, Saeed Ahmad worked in the state health service, where he specialized in lung diseases. In 1939 he became the first head of the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Dadar on the north-west border, a position he held until 1964. He was given the title of Khan Bahadar by the British administration in India and the title of Sitara-i Khidmat by the Pakistani government .

He resigned as a doctor in 1964 but continued to treat destitute patients for free in Abbottabad . He had a mosque built near his home and conducted summer training courses there for the Ahmadiyya movement in Lahore. In 1974 he moved to Lahore as a result of the anti-Ahmadiyya riots in Pakistan. Some troublemakers, as part of their efforts to have the Ahmadiyya movement declared a non-Islamic organization by law by the Pakistani government, incited the population to attack Ahmadi supporters. Ahmad suffered financial losses when his home and clinic were destroyed in a fire and received death threats for adhering to the Ahmadiyya beliefs. However, he rejected all proposals by the rioters to remove the term “Ahmadiyya” from the name of the movement in order to continue to be recognized as an Islamic organization.

Ahmad was elected head (emir) of the movement in 1981, after having been senior vice-president for several years. As an emir, he toured the United Kingdom , the United States , the Netherlands , Canada , Trinidad and Tobago , Guyana, and Suriname . He died at the age of 96 on November 15, 1996 in Lahore, Pakistan.

Web links

• Obituary for Dr Saeed Ahmad Khan in The Light at www.ahmadiyya.org (English)
• Obituary for Dr Saeed Ahmad Khan at www.aaiil.org (English; PDF file; 42 kB)