Hazrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad Khalifatul Masih III

Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad (Urdu: مرزا ناصر احمد) (November 16, 1909 – June 9, 1982) was Khalifatul Masih III, head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He was elected as the third successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad on November 8, 1965, the day after the death of his predecessor, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad. He was son of Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the second Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He died age 72 in 1982.

Marriage, Wives and Children

Mirza Nasir Ahmad married Syeda Nawab Mansoora Begum in 1934. She was daughter of Nawab Mubarka Begum, the daughter of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Nawab Mohammad Ali Khan. Mirza Nasir Ahmad had five children from this marriage. Upon the death of Mansoora Begum in December 1981, Mirza Nasir Ahmad married Tahira Sidiqqa in April 1982. He had no children with her.