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Fateha Khawaja, Tilford Living in such a fast-paced, material world, it can feel difficult at times to actively enhance our spiritual knowledge. Sometimes we get so caught up in things like school-work, or extracurricular activities, we struggle to leave some time in our days for reading a religious book or an interesting article that discusses
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Fezia Haq, London. Since its inception, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been fortunate to achieve many milestones, in line with God’s promises to the Messiah & Mahdi, His Holiness Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be upon him). One of many promises God made to him was: “People will come to you from distant lands and the
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park There’s much to be said about human nature. Every society has built up extensive conversations and discourses surrounding what it means to be human and what humanity means to us. I don’t pretend to be able to add much, or anything at all, to the conversation. But one thing that has
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Rabah Nasir, Worcester Park Objective 12: ‘Since every new project is ridiculed by people at the outset, it is necessary, therefore, that you should disregard their mockery and the lesson to bear taunts and insults with fortitude and bravery (whether given privately or in public), should be learnt beforehand so that by seeing your example
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn The idea of unity is very unique – it is a prerequisite for anything that involves more than one person. Families, friendships, teams, communities, nations – you name it – none of these can survive in harmony if they are void of unity or mutual respect. Establishing and preserving unity among Muslims
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With Allah’s grace, as we complete 100 years of our wonderful Ahmadi Muslim women’s auxiliary organistaion, Bareera Ghaffar and Matina Hakim reflect over what Lajna Ima’illah means to them, how it has shaped their lives and how they feel blessed to be a part of it.
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Generally, I try to be quite an optimistic person. I’m not necessarily the kind of person to blindly insist the glass is half-full but I will certainly search for justifications to make the case. But I have to admit, lately it’s been a little harder to be optimistic. News headlines of
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Maariya Thaker, Luton Exalted then is Allah, the True King! And be not impatient for the Qur’an ere its revelation is completed unto thee, but only say, ‘O my Lord, increase me in knowledge.’ (Holy Qur’an, 20:115) Aim and Objective 1 of Lajna Ima’illah: ‘Women should strive together to enhance their knowledge and spread the
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Rabah Nasir, Worcester Park Our beloved Huzoor, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, our current Khalifa and worldwide spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, often ends the letters he writes to us with the prayer: ‘May Allah Almighty enhance your spiritual wellbeing’. This perfectly summarises how important it is to take care of and value
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Bareera Ghaffar, Birmingham As it celebrates its 100 years, I reflect on how Lajna Ima’illah, the women’s auxiliary organisation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community enables and encourages not only me, but many women around the globe to serve Islam Ahmadiyyat. It is like being swathed by the true and pure sense of sisterhood, like cold
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