Ahmed Effendi returned to Haymana to spread the Baha'i faith but at the same time remained in his position as imam.

According to the information from one of his grandchildren, he was born towards the end of the 1850s in the town of Sanandaj in Northern Iraq (Kurdistan). After his education in Halab (Syria) and his marriage he moved to Haymana, near Ankara, where he was an imam. In 1913 he left for Egypt where he heard about the Baha'i faith. Later he visited 'Abdu'l-Baha in Haifa. At the orders of 'Abdu'I-Baha, Ahmed Effendi returned to Haymana to spread the Baha'i faith but at the same time remained in his position as imam.

(Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire - Reformers, Babis and Baha'is by Necati Alkan, Page 207)