![]() He led the Ahmadiyya Muslim community from 1914 till 1965, as Khalifatul Masih II. The second biographer that I want to introduce here is by Hadhrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad (1889-1965), who was mentor of Sir Zafrulla Khan. The biography by him, Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets can be read online. ![]() He is the author of Islam: Its Meaning for Modern Man (1962) and wrote a translation of the Qur’an (1970).” Returning to the International Court of Justice in 1964, he served as the court’s president from 1970 to 1973. He again represented Pakistan at the UN in 1961–64 and served as president of the UN General Assembly in 1962–63. From 1954 to 1961 he served as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Upon the independence of Pakistan, Zafrulla Khan became the new country’s minister of foreign affairs and served concurrently as leader of Pakistan’s delegation to the UN (1947–54). Prior to the partition of India in 1947, Zafrulla Khan presented the Muslim League’s view of the future boundaries of Pakistan to Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the man designated to decide the boundaries between India and Pakistan. He led the Indian delegation to the League of Nations in 1939, and from 1941 to 1947 he served as a judge of the Federal Court of India. In 1931–32 he was president of the All-India Muslim League (later the Muslim League), and he sat on the British viceroy’s executive council as its Muslim member from 1935 to 1941. He practiced law in Sialkot and Lahore, became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1926, and was a delegate in 1930, 1931, and 1932 to the Round Table Conferences on Indian reforms in London. from King’s College, London University, in 1914. The son of the leading attorney of his native city, Zafrulla Khan studied at Government College in Lahore and received his LL.B. “Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, and international jurist, known particularly for his representation of Pakistan at the United Nations (UN). It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.” We have saved the movie in the Muslim Times as well to preserve it for the posterity: Starring Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas, this breathtaking historical epic about the birth of the Islamic faith took six years to prepare and more than a year to film. The back cover of the movie states, “After seeing a vision of the Angel Gabriel, Mohammad calls to the people of Mecca to cast aside the 300 idols of Kaaba and worship only one God. ![]() Had it not been for his gifts as a seer, statesman, and administrator and, behind these, his trust in God and firm belief that God had sent him, a notable chapter in the history of mankind would have remained unwritten. Circumstances presented him with an opportunity such as few men have had, but the man was fully matched with the hour. The more one reflects on the history of Muhammad and of early Islam, the more one is amazed at the vastness of his achievement. What Samuel Parsons Scott missed, Reverend Professor Montgomery Watt a biographer of the Prophet Muhammad grasped or was it a Freudian slip? He high lighted above all virtues the Prophet’s trust in God: In any event, if the object of religion be the inculcation of morals, the diminution of evil, the promotion of human happiness, the expansion of the human intellect, if the performance of good works will avail in the great day when mankind shall be summoned to its final reckoning it is neither irreverent nor unreasonable to admit that Muhammad was indeed an Apostle of God. ![]() If this be conceded, the largest measure of credit is due to him who conceived its plan, promoted its impulse, and formulated the rules which insured its success. The glories which invest the history of Islam may be entirely derived from the valor, the virtue, the intelligence, the genius, of man. Samuel Parsons Scott, an American attorney, banker, and historian, understood part of the charm of the Prophet’s character, when he wrote: ![]()
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