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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn Annual events of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community bring a great sense of excitement and joy for the Community members. This is extra noticeable this year as events slowly return to their normal scale after two years of Covid restrictions. As for the Ijtema or the Annual Gathering of Lajna Imaillah UK –
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Arfa Yassir, Swindon From the corner of my eye, I was looking at the table which the stage secretary had asked me to place a flower vase and some other things on. I placed the vase in the centre, thinking it looked “best” that way, contrary to what I was told which was to place
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Recent popular feminist discourse has broadly adopted the idea of ‘women supporting women’. The idea of women being there to keep one another safe, motivated, and inspired is becoming paramount amongst women’s circles and certainly is a positive direction. So many fields of the secular world, which are still heavily dominated
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Cemal Inam, Thornton Heath The media for many years has been quick to label Muslim women as ‘oppressed, meek, silent victims’ but if anyone attends an Ijtema, an event run exclusively by Ahmadi Muslim women and attended by Ahmadi Muslim women and girls, their assumption would quickly be contradicted. That is why for as long
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot Ijtema is an annual event where members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community join in their separate auxiliaries to learn, compete and socialise with others of their faith. I have been going to the national Lajna and Nasirat Ijtema for as long as I can remember, a fixed event in my diary along
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