Community
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn Often in life, you want to turn to someone for guidance, for advice, or simply to be heard and to be understood. After our parents, the people we often look towards are our siblings or our closest friends. They say family is your safe haven, it is your comfort place, and the
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Rameen Masood, Leicester ‘Which, then, of the favours of your Lord will you twain deny?’[i] 1922. The year when building blocks of Muslim female empowerment were laid, to be realised with knowledge and spiritual enhancement and zeal for service and thus Lajna Ima’illah was formed by His Holiness Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (may Allah be
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Maariya Thakur, Luton As the Lajna Centenary is being commemorated all over the world, I’ve been pondering over what Lajna Ima’illah means to me. First established in India 1922, we are an independent group, an auxiliary organisation of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The organisation was established as a result of His Holiness, Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad’s,
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Rabah Nasir, Worcester Park The 1928 Equal Franchise Act finally allowed women in the UK the same voting right as men, after a long hard fight and sacrifice of the Suffragettes. By then Lajna Ima’illah, the Ahmadiyya Muslim women’s auxiliary organisation was already 6 years old, at the cost of no blood and sweat of
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Bordon Consider, if you have them, your childhood memories of Jalsa Salana. In one specific memory from when I was about ten years old, I had been wandering around the Jalsa Gah (taking a break from my hard work doing water duty) and came across an AIMS ID face down on the floor.
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Sarah Ward, London As Maya Angelou famously said “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ”1 As I grow older, I am beginning to realise how very true this wisdom is. Memory, as we travel through life and time, begins
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In our Jalsa special podcast, Iffat Mirza and Nooresahar Ahmad reflect on the origins of Jalsa Salana, its purpose, the value of the Pledge of Allegiance, and their fond memories of the blessed three days.
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Shumaila Iftikhar, London With the grace of Allah, his year’s annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK, begins today. The Jalsa Salana is a three-day event filled with speeches from key figures from within the Community as well as outside, including politicians, philanthropists and others from around the world. This year, in
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In this episode of the British Muslim Women’s podcast, Iffat Mirza, Nooresahar Ahmed and Melissa Ahmedi reflect upon the lessons we learned over the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of social responsibility not only during trying times, but in society always.
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In the month Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, we present the second blog in our series on the various hierarchical jewels associated with Jubilees and their symbolic meaning in relation to the invaluable principles given in the Holy Qur’an. Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn With the widespread national celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee of Her
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