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Life after Obedience…Life after Facebook

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In 2006, during summer vacation in grade 11, I had just finished an online course and had 1 month left before grade 12 started. At that time someone suggested I try something called Facebook. When I looked into it, apparently it was a service that was only open to University students before but a few months ago, it was opened to High School students. I joined it and within a few months my entire high school had dived in this service. My friends and even my acquaintances were my friends on Facebook. Poke this, like that, write on this wall, comment on that picture, etc. During the next 5 years, Facebook went through many changes (sometimes on a daily basis) which didn’t affect me, nor did they concern me. I would say I only wrote on my wall once in a while, commented on someone’s status, and liked a few images here and there. My relatives also joined Facebook. I also friended a few people from my childhood. I wasn’t a heavy Facebook user by any means but did spend enough spare time on it for sure. So far, I have not even explained the title of this article so let’s dive in that.

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Ahmadiyya “ Al Mahdi ” Mosque opened in Bradford

On 7th November 2008, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the ‘Al‐Mahdi Mosque’ in Bradford, UK, with his weekly Friday Sermon, broadcast live across the world from Bradford. Later, the same evening the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat UK hosted a special reception marking the inauguration of the mosque in which various dignitaries from the local community attended. During the reception Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, spoke of how Ahmadiyya mosques were true Houses of God, from which only slogans of peace would ever emanate. Read the full story

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