This is the third and final part of our series on the Lahori Ahmadis’. In part two we discussed in more details what our beliefs are and we answered the most common criticisms against us. In this final part we will be explaining the attitudes of the Ahmadiyya movement towards other sects and communities and
This is the second of our three part series on the Lahori Ahmadi’s. In part one we briefly outlined what we stand for and today we will be explaining in more detail about our beliefs. This series has been taken from ‘The Ahmadiyya Doctrines’ by Maulana Muhammad Ali. The Ahmadis are called kafir by some
This is a three part series being published over three days in which we will be giving a brief explanation of the beliefs and objectives of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha‘at Islam of Lahore and an invitation to all Muslims to join us in the cause of propagation of Islam. This series has been taken from
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad explains that when in Surah Fatihah we ask for Divine favours this really is a supplication to allow us into the company of the prophets, truthful ones, martyrs and the righteous. This should allow us to emulate their qualities in our own character.
35:8 Is he whose evil deed is made fair-seeming to him so that he considers it good? — Now surely Allah leaves in error whom He pleases and guides aright whom He pleases, so let not thy soul waste in grief for them. Surely Allah is Knower of what they do.
35:9 And Allah is He Who sends the winds, so they raise a cloud, then We drive it on to a dead land, and therewith give life to the earth after its death. Even so is the quickening.
Chapter 35 verses 8 and 9 say that some ‘evil’ deeds are ‘fair seeming’ to wrong doers. Environmental damage is one such ‘evil’ deed which seems fair to those who do it for ‘evil’ represents an action that harms others. This is why we will be required to justify to Allah that what we did was the right thing to do. The lesson is that we should look at our actions to see how they impact on others now and in the future.
An example of a Muslim Cemetery
In a gruesome incident late Saturday night, 29 graves in an Ahmadi graveyard were desecrated in Dunyapur, district Lodhran, around 100 kilometres away from Multan.
The community’s spokesperson Saleemuddin told The Express Tribune that unidentified people entered the graveyard and broke the plaques (katbe) of a large number of graves, while digging around 29 others. Only two graves that were made of marble were left concrete, he said.
Saleemuddin said local representatives of the community have approached the police and submitted an application for legal action, but no investigation has been undertaken so far. Police officials have asked the community to first rebuild their graves after which the issue would be further investigated, he added.
DPO Lodhran Agha Muhammad Yusuf while talking to The Express Tribune confirmed that the graveyard had been desecrated, adding that the area’s DSP is looking into the matter. The DPO said he would look into the case after investigations are completed. Read More
An article from The Times archives
The people who run the wokingmuslim.org website have been doing sterling work over the years in gathering and making available information about the Woking Mosque in the UK.
The Mosque was built in 1889 as one of the first mosques in Western Europe, and after it fell into disuse briefly between 1900 and 1912, the Lahori Ahmadi Indian lawyer Hazrat Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, who had just arrived in England, was instructed by Hazrat Noor-ud-Din the first successor of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement to establish an Islamic mission in the mosque and as a result was able to purchase the mosque and its grounds from the inheritor. The Woking Muslim Mission was thus established.
As per the photo of an article above the website has collected news reports and articles from the online archives of The Times newspaper of London which refer to events relating to the Woking Mosque, activities of the Woking Muslim Mission from the Woking Mosque, and the personalities involved in the work of the mission.
It was Hazrat Maulana Sadr-ud-Din The second Amir of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-e-Islam Lahore who was at that time an Imam of the Woking Mosque who played a key role in the cemetery at Horsell Common being established for the Muslim soldiers.
To view extracts from the archives please visit the site at the link below.
(Reuters) – The small but enthusiastic group of “progressive” Muslims arrives at a hotel conference room in Pakistan’s capital with the tools they hope will help blunt extremism in the unstable U.S. ally.
The Khudi organisation — self-esteem in Urdu — does not expect the government to tackle the problem of spreading Islamist radicalism.
So it has taken on what seems to be mission impossible — creating a social movement that can reverse the growing tide.
Seconds after using laptop computers, a slide projector, a film documentary and examples from history to highlight the dangers of militancy, Khudi leaders are confronted by hostile university students in the audience. Read More
Lowe’s, the national hardware chain, has pulled commercials from future episodes of “All-American Muslim,” a TLC reality-TV show, after protests by Christian groups.
The Florida Family Association, a Tampa Bay group, has led a campaign urging companies to pull ads on “All-American Muslim.”
“‘All-American Muslim’ is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law,” the Florida group asserts in a letter it asks members to send to TLC advertisers.
The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to the liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish,” the FFA’s letter continues. Read More
Any one who carries a message is a messenger but when it is a messenger from Allah he has this irresistible urge to help humanity. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (s) was the one who had most sympathy for people in his heart even when compared to other prophets.
Verse 2:143 calls Muslims “ummati wustai”. This is usually translated as “exalted nation”. I disagree with this. I believe it means a moderate people. So Islam enjoins moderation on Muslims. This is not just in religious matters but also secular matters. So we must avoid extravagance in celebrating all functions, in our behaviour and so on.
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (a.s.) explains that the Unity of Godhead and the ‘messengership’ of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s) are inseparable. Prophets of Allah have it in their nature to worry about the spiritual nourishment of people just like it is in a mother’s nature to provide physical nourishment for a child.
The Muslim year starts from the day when the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s) migrated from Makkah to Medina. Each religion begins its calendar with a momentous event, usually the birth of some personality. However, Muslims do not start their calendar, from someone’s date of birth, but an event with which Islam started to make progress in the world.
December 20, 2011 
