Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928тАУ2003), a man of God, Voice articulate of the age, a great orator, a deeply learned scholar of phenomenal intelligence, a prolific and versatile writer, a keen student of comparative religions, the spiritual head, being┬аthe┬аfourth┬аsuccessor┬аof Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (the Promised Messiah and Mahdi), to which august office he was elected as Khal─лfatul Masih in 1982.
Besides being a religious leader, he was a homeopathic physician of world fame, a highly gifted poet and a sportsman. Though he had no formal education in philosophy and science, he had a philosophical bent of mind and tackled most difficult and abstruse theological-philosophical questions with great acumen and ease and his intellectual approach was always rational and scientific.