The largest mosque in Western Europe will host politics, faith and civic leaders at a peace symposium next month. More than 800 guests are expected to descend on Morden’s Baitul Futuh Mosque for the National Peace Symposium, which aims to promote a deeper understanding of Islam. International development secretary Justine Greening and energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey are expected to be among guest speakers on the night.
A PROMINENT Muslim cleric of Trinidad and Tobago has branded the Islamic State (ISIS), as a “terror organisation” which poses a physical threat to the survival of the human race and must be exterminated from the surface of the globe. Addressing the third day of the Jalsa Salana, organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at its centre, Polo Grounds, Preysal yesterday, Maulana Ibrahim Bin Yaqub, also identified the Ebola virus as another catastrophe which is creating havoc in the world.
Residents of Rabwah have self-secured themselves as the general population plans for the approaching 33th International Khatme Nabuwat conference to be held in the region of Rabwah on 6th September 2014. Posters publicizing the get-together have been plastered all over from Chiniot to Chenab Nagar (Rabwah). Individuals from all over Pakistan have started arriving in the adjacent city of Chiniot, the same city in April 2009 renamed its town centre from Tehsil Chowk to “Khatme Nabuwat Chowk”.
Over 120 Islamic scholars from around the world, many of them leading Muslim voices in countries like Egypt & Saudia Arabia have issued an open letter denouncing Islamic State militants and refuting their religious arguments. The 22-page letter, written in Arabic and heavy with quotes from the Quran and other Islamic sources not only denounces Islamic State militants but unintentionally resolves another key issue in the Muslim World.
“I do not regard the Ahmadiyyas as Muslims”, says a female medical student emphatically to me, emphasizing that they are kaffirs and should not be regarded as Muslims at all. What shocks me is that it is a female student at the medical faculty of Copenhagen University who says this in September 2014. Our conversation just happened to have got diverted, and when I got to know she was a Muslim, I told her in simple enthusiasm that I had …
They arrived at Camp Saginaw carrying sleeping bags and blankets, hustled about a soccer field, mounted go-karts – even made s’mores. And just after 1 p.m. Saturday, the scores of boys and men turned east, toward Mecca. “There’s a time for prayer, and there’s a time for play,” said Ahmad Chaudhry, 39, as the Muslim attendees prepared to perform two of five daily prayers beneath a canopy in Oxford, in southwest Chester County. So went the gathering of more than …
OVER 30,000 MUSLIMS PLEDGE PEACE AT ANNUAL CONVENTION As dawn breaks over farmland in rural Hampshire, the flags of many nations flutter in the morning breeze. Those nations in reality represent more than 200 in total and stand for the tens of millions of Ahmadi Muslims worldwide. Over 30,000 Ahmadis from 80 countries gathered in Alton, Hampshire, for the annual convention for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community convention, also known as Jalsa Salana. The event took place over the weekend of …
Thousands of British Muslims from cities, towns and villages across the UK will next week travel to the Hampshire countryside where they will join Muslims from across the world in pledging allegiance to Caliphate and in seeking spiritual guidance. More than 30,000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) will next weekend offer their pledges at a three-day international event, known as the ‘Jalsa Salana’, in Alton, Hampshire. The Jalsa Salana is the largest and longest standing Muslim convention in …
Rabwah, PAKISTAN – This must be the only newspaper office in all of Pakistan that is alive and buzzing at 9:00am. While the country’s other sub-editors, reporters and publishers are still sleeping off last night’s print deadline, these journalists are already hard at work, drafting the next edition of Pakistan’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper. Al-Fazl, the community newspaper of the Ahmadi Muslim sect, was first published in 1913, in the town of Qadian in what is today Indian Punjab. …
Hundreds of people are to join Muslims at one of Western Europe’s biggest mosques to take part in the breaking of the fast in Islam’s holiest month, Ramadan. Millions of British Muslims are fasting from dawn to dusk, raising funds for charity and inviting friends and neighbours to open the fast with a meal that is part of the tradition of Islam. The breaking of the fast, with dates, is followed by prayers and a meal, known as Iftar.
I am proud that Muslims: Sunni/Shia, Sufi/Salafi, deobandi and Barelvi, have all come together in @MuslimCouncil to seek the common good — Dr Shuja Shafi (@drshujashafi) July 9, 2014 The billing is “British Muslims Sign Historic Intra-Faith Unity Statement: Intra-Faith Unity Statement Aims to Provide Common Ground Between Muslims of All Traditions.” Tonight at an event, special guests of the Muslim Council of Britain were invited to sign the statement that calls for
As ISIS gains new territory and funds with which to establish an Islamic state and ‘’Caliphate’’, they are perhaps unaware that the institution of Caliphate is already in existence here in the UK. The UK first became the home to a world-wide Caliphate in 1984 when His Holiness, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth Caliph, migrated from Pakistan to England. Today, the leafy streets of Southfields, South-West London, are home to his successor, the fifth Caliph and worldwide head of the …