Fazle Umar
The forward march of Ahmadiyyat Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] moved from his temporary residence in Rattan Bagh, Lahore to his permanent residence at Rabwah on 19th September 1949 and was now able to devote his full attention to the establishment of the new World Headquarters of the Movement, pulling together all the threads that bound the Community and restarting the forward march of the Movement which had been so grievously interrupted by the tragic events that followed upon the partition of the country. The finances of the Community had fallen into a certain degree of inevitable disarray and were speedily reorganised on a firm basis and henceforward went on multiplying themselves in a surprising manner. In April 1949, the Annual Conference of the Movement had already been held in Rabwah, and most of the institutions of the Movement were re-established in Rabwah in the course of the year. Of the principal institutions, only the Talimul Islam College continued in the D.A.V. College building in Lahore, awaiting the construction of its own building at Rabwah. This took another five years. After the move of the Khalifatul Masih to Rabwah, everything began to hum as of yore and all the branches in Pakistan and abroad became firmly knitted together once more unobstructed and freely circulating under his guidance. The Movement had established footholds in British East Africa, as it was then, in the time of the Promised Messiah [as]. The footholds became linked together in the course of time, and during the Second Khilafat burgeoned into a network of active branches. In the early years of the Second Khilafat, branches of the Movement had been established in the British colonies of West Africa and were doing very good work. Indeed, they were making such rapid progress that Christian missionaries in West Africa, and those interested in the spread of Christianity in the West African states,
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