Mirza Tahir Ahmad

As Khalifatul Masih Mirza Tahir Ahmad established the Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (commonly referred to as MTA). This satellite-based channel broadcast its first show on 21 August 1992 from London.[6]

In 1993 Mirza Tahir Ahmad started an international initiation ceremony to be held every year at the annual gatherings of Ahmadis in which new converts join the community by pledging their allegiance to the Khalifa. The International Bai'at ceremony was broadcast live across the world. He often claimed that it was the historical fulfillment of the Pentecost that was destined to occur at the time of the Second Coming.[7]

Tahir Ahmad delivered annual commentaries on the Quran during the month of Ramadan. He incorporated lengthy discussions of previous commentators as well as the founder of Ahmadiyya and the Ahmadiyya Caliphs that came before him. In addition, he discussed the lexicon of the Quran and refuted many Orientalist ideas about the historicity of the Quran, Islam and the life of the Prophet Muhammad. His commentaries differed significantly from those offered by many of the classical Quranic commentators, placing emphasis on the logical and rational approach to the Quran. For example, he did not believe it was essential to rely heavily on Asbab al-nuzul (Circumstances of the Revelation) in order to understand the implications of the Quranic verses, presenting strong arguments instead that the Quran offered its own context. He delivered seven discourses on Asbab al-nuzul.[11]

Ahmad wrote a book title Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth, which was a further development on a talk he gave in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1987. It covered many topics relating to the present-day. In this book he argued a rebuttal to the theories of biologist Richard Dawkins.[12] He claims that Socrates was a prophet of the ancient Greeks and that several other prominent figures from history were at the level of prophethood due to their accomplishments and their influence.

• Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth – Examines the relationships between science, philosophy and religion[13]
• Sawaney Fazl – E – Omer – Official Biography of Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the second Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community[14]
• An Elementary Study of Islam[15]
• Gulf Crisis and The New World Order[16]
• Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction – Examines and discusses a variety of current Christian beliefs through logic and reason[17]
• Murder in the Name of Allah[18]
• Zahaqal Baatil ([19][20][21]
• Reality of punishment of apostasy in Islam (Urdu)[22]
• Homeopathy[23]
• Some Distinctive Features of Islam[24]
• Introduction to the Surahs of The Noble Quran: With Brief Explanatory Notes to Some Verses[25]

Many of Ahmad's books began as lectures as did Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues which was originally a lecture given at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on the 24 February 1990 attended by 800 guests including Edward Mortimer who presided over the session and Hugo Summerson, Member of Parliament. It has been compiled into book form.[26]