Source: afrikinfos.com

Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih, Deputy Ameer, has been appointed the Ameer and missionary –in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana. He succeeds Maulvi Dr. A. Wahab Adam, who passed away in June.

The appointment was announced in London by the worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahamd. Until his appointment, Maulvi Bin Salih was the Acting Ameer and Missionary-in charge.

The new Ameer and Missionary-In-charge was born in Mecca in 1948 during the pilgrimage of his late parents.

He was dedicated to the service of Islam by his late father, Imam Salih of Wa, who had willed when he passed away in 1960 that his son should be sent to Rabwah, Pakistan, the international headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, to pursue Islamic studies for the propagation of the Islam Ahmadiyatt.

Of interest is that Imam Salih, who introduced Islam Ahmadiyatt to Wa, after his conversion, while sojourning in Ashanti Region, was persecuted for introducing a new religion and eventually banished from the area.

Maulvi Salih had his elementary education at the Jejeidayiri Ahmadiyya Primary School and the Wa Middle Day Schools, in Wa, from where he passed the Common Entrance Examination and gained admission to secondary school.

But the executors of his father’s will insisted that young Bin Salih was destined for theological studies at Rabwah, in Pakistan, and not a secondary school in Ghana. This was in spite of the fact that district council bursaries and scholarships were available for his secondary education.

In 1960, he was admitted to the newly established Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionary Training College at Saltpond, where he graduated with a Diploma four years later.

In 1969, Maulvi Bin Salih left Ghana for Rabwah, Pakistan, for further studies. He had his Bachelor’s Degree in Arabic from the University of Punjab and a post graduate degree in Islamic Theology from the Jamia Ahmadiyya, Rabwah Pakistan.

He returned to Ghana in 1978 and was posted to Wa, as Regional Missionary, then to Tamale as Northern Regional Missionary and to Tema as Greater Accra Regional Missionary.

In 1983, Maulvi Salih was posted to Zimbabwe to open the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in the Southern African country.

Maulvi Salih is married to Ummul Khair Muhammed and they have four children.

The Ameer and Missionary –In-Charge is the author of;

1. A History of the Wala – The Ahmadiyya Factor

2. The Kingdom of Wa – Elucidation of our Origins and Settlements

3. Our Cultural Heritage: Some aspects of Customary law, Usage and Traditions of the Waala

4. Law of inheritance; An Islamic Perspective.

Maulvi Salih, Ameer and Missionary-In-Charge, has since returned home from the U.K., where he attended the 48th Ahmadiyya Muslim Association International Convention held in London.

Signed

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(Ahmad N. Twumasi)

Source: The Chronicle