Saeed Ahmad Khan

Saeed Ahmad Khan ( born 1900, † November 15, 1996 in Lahore ) was first trailer and 15 November 1981 to 15 November 1996 and the conductor ( Emir ) of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman -i -Islam Lahore Ischat ( AAIIL ), an Islamic denomination.

Ahmad (now a part of Pakistan ) born in the Hazara region of the North-West Frontier of British India. His father, Muhammad Yahya, and his uncle, Muhammad Yaqub, were already members of the Ahmadiyya movement. He was the last of the AAIIL belonging person who personally took off the bai'at by the hand, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, at the age of eight. He went with his father in December 1907 according to Qadian and stayed there for three months.

Training

He returned in 1912 back to learn in the Ahmadiyya school in Qadian, known as the Taleem -ul -Islam High School, and received next year 's permission. 1914, the Ahmadiyya movement split after the death of Hakim Noor ud- Din, Khilafat ul- Massih I., and Ahmad returned home to continue his education in the provincial town of Abbottabad. He studied at King Edward's Medical College, Lahore, and reached in 1925 a degree in medicine. He was the first Muslim in college who got an award medal for his studies. In Lahore he followed Muhammad Ali's readings / explanations / interpretations on the Quran and became his student / disciple. He became the first president of the association of young Ahmadi men. He was Hafiz of the Quran and dominated the Classical Arabic / Alt- Arabic.

Work and works

After completing his studies Saeed Ahmad worked in the National Health Service and had specialized there on 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 awarded by the British administration in India the title of Khan Bahadar and the Pakistani government to the title Sitara -i Khidmat.

He quit his position as a doctor in 1964, but still treated indigent patients without charge in Abbottabad. He built a mosque near his house and led there for the Ahmadiyya community in Lahore in summer training courses. In 1974 he moved as a result of the anti - Ahmadiyya to unrest in Pakistan to Lahore. Some troublemakers stirred up as part of their efforts to make the Ahmadiyya movement by an Act of the Pakistani government to explain to a non- Muslim organization on the population to attacks on the Ahmadi followers. Ahmad suffered by the destruction of his house and his clinic by a fire, and received financial losses because of its adherence to the beliefs of the Ahmadiyya death threats. However, he rejected all suggestions of the rebels to remove the term " Ahmadiyya " from the name of the movement to remain recognized as a Muslim organization.

Ahmad was elected in 1981 as the head ( Emir ) of the motion, after which he was for several years senior vice -president. As Emir, he traveled to the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname. He died at the age of 96 years on 15 November 1996 in Lahore, Pakistan.