Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan(1900-1996) (Amir (1981-1996)) was born in the Hazara area of the North-West Frontier of British India (in modern-day Pakistan). His father, Maulana Muhammad Yahya, and uncle, Maulana Muhammad Yaqub, were already members of the Ahmadiyya Movement. At the age of six, he included his name on a postcard from his village to take the baiat or (Oath of Allegiance) with Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian. He was the last person to have take bai'at at the Promised Messiah's own hand, at the age of eight years old. He went with his father in December 1907 to Qadian with and stayed there for some three months in the company of the Promised Messiah.

He went again in 1912, to study in the Ahmadiyya school in Qadian and the following year he obtained admission, known as the Taleem-ul-Islam High School. In 1914 when the Maulana Nur-ud-Din Khalifatul Masih I died a Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement took place, he returned home to continued his education in the local city of Abbottabad. Then he studied at King Edward's Medical College, Lahore, where he obtained a Medical degree in 1925. He was the first Muslim at the College to receive a Medal for his studies. In Lahore he attended Maulana Muhammad Ali's lectures on the Quran and became his follower. He became the first president of the Ahmadiyya Young men's Association. He was Hafiz of the Qur'an and competent in Classical Arabic. After qualifying, Dr. Saeed Ahmad joined the government's Health Department and specialised in chest diseases. In 1939 he was became the first superintendent of the government's Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Dadar in the North-West Frontier, and held this post until 1964. He was awarded the title Khan Bahadar by the British government of India and the title Sitara-i Khidmat by the government of Pakistan.

He retired as a doctor in 1964, but continued as a General Practitioner in Abbottabad, treating the poor free of charge. He also built a mosque close to his house and ran a residential summer school there, for the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. He settled in Lahore, from his home in 1974, following the anti-Ahmadiyya riots of the summer of that year in Pakistan. The inciters encouraged mob attacks against Ahmadis throughout the country as part of their campaign to force the government of Pakistan to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims by law. Dr. Saeed Ahmad's suffered losses with the burning down of his clinic and his house and he received death threats unless they renounced their Ahmadi beliefs. And rebuffed attempts to drop the name 'Ahmadiyya' form the name of the Movement so to be accepted as Muslim by instigators of the riots.

Dr. Saeed Ahmad Khan was elected Head of the Movement in 1981, after previously being a senior Vice-president for several years. He suceeded Maulana Sadr-ud-Din as Amir. He died in that role on Friday 15th November 1996 in Lahore, Pakistan aged 96 years of age. As President he travelled to UK, USA, Holland, Canada, Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam. He was suceeded by Dr Ashar Hameed.

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