Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi is a spiritual leader, founder of the spiritual movements RAGS International (now known as Messiah Foundation International

Messiah Foundation International

- Shahi's claimed meeting with Jesus :The movement claims that Shahi met with Jesus Christ on the 29th of May, 1997 in Taos, New Mexico. Shahi claimed that Jesus could speak many languages and did not live in a particular home. When asked about what was discussed between himself and Jesus, Shahi...

) and Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam (ASI; ).
He is the author of a number of Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 books on spiritual topics, the most successful among these being Deen-e-Ilahi "The Religion of God" (2000), translated into English, Arabic, Thai, Persian, and Hindi by Messiah Foundation International.

RAGS International was renamed to Messiah Foundation International after Shahi's disappearance in 2001.