EXCLUSIVE – A glimpse of Huzoor’s Jalsa Salana Hazrat Amirul Momineenaa graciously shares with Al Hakam his Jalsa experience Page 4 - 6
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“He is no ordinary person”
36th Jalsa Salana Norway
32nd MKA Canada Ijtema
Guests’ impressions of Hazrat Khalifatul Masihaa
Jalsa Salana Norway held on 17 and 18 August at the Baitul-Nasr Mosque in Oslo
Annual Majlis Khuddam-ulAhmadiyya Canada Ijtema held on 26, 27 and 28 July at Hadiqa-eAhmad, Bradford, Ontario
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THE WEEKLY
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The burning issue of Kashmir ashmir is in the news again! It always K has been since the long-gone days of the British Empire; always for unrest,
disturbance and conflict. Day by day, the tragedy and suffering continues within Kashmir, without any sign of cessation. What India and Pakistan contest each other for is a secondary question; the primary question is what the British Government had in mind when they sold it to Gulab Singh for peanuts back in the days. One could say that that too is a by-gone, so why plunge into the closed chapters of history. But the tragedy (or the good thing rather) with history is that it is hard to shun wherever we go, floating on the tides of time. So the British saga is something we cannot avoid. Having sold Jammu and Kashmir to Gulab Singh – the so-called Maharaja – the British sat back with their feet up while communal unrest became rife in the region. It took decades for a befitting response from the Muslims to emerge and that too on an All-India scale. The British-Indian government was taken aback, as well as the Maharaja of Kashmir. Who was behind this nationwide response of Indian Muslims? Well, this is another interesting story. The Muslims of India had been planning
Hadith-e-Rasul – Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa
Those who are not merciful to mankind Hazrat Jarir bin Abdullah, Allah be pleased with him, narrates that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: “Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to mankind.” (Sunan al-Bukhari, Kitab alTawheed)
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words
Act upon my counsel
to unite for the cause of the Kashmiri Muslims but had not yet been able to do so. After many failed attempts, they decided to invite Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmadra, Khalifatul Masih IIra to unite the Muslims at one hand. Not being a political leader, Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmadra reluctantly agreed only in the name of Muslim unity – something that was a dire need of the time for Muslims to progress
in any field and not just the Kashmir cause. The turn of the 1930s decade saw riots replacing diplomacy and becoming the only way of political expression. This, of course, was not the way to resolve complex issues that prevailed the region of Jammu and Kashmir. An All India Kashmiri Muslim Conference was held, soon after the bloody riots of 25 July 1931, by prominent Indian-Muslim leaders to put their
I have given you this advice because you, who hold a relationship with me, have become my limbs. Act upon my words and make use of reason and the Word of Allah so that the light of true insight and certainty develops within you, and so that you may become a path that leads others from darkness into light. For in this era, various allegations are raised on the basis of natural science, medicine and astronomy; it is necessary, therefore, to acquire a knowledge of the scope and background of these sciences so that we are able to understand such allegations before responding. (Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, Malfuzat, Vol. 1, p 66)