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PRESS RELEASE 16 January 2017 Some 700 women attended a national Peace symposium titled “Faith and Loyalty to Britain: The Role of Women” on Saturday. The event was organised by women from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association UK to dispel misconceptions about Islam and Muslim Women and demonstrate that loyalty to Britain is part of…
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Sameen R. Chaudhary, London Time, and marks of time such as the New Year give us milestones and posts for us to measure our time on earth. With such guideposts, we can see how much progress we have made, and how much we have lost over the past year. There is criticism that the…
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot, UK Often as the New Year counts down I will say a prayer; this year I raised my hands in silent prayer a couple of minutes before midnight. It was silent around me and I thanked God for the blessings He had given me and prayed for my family. No one was…
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Nazma Raichuri, Hounslow East New Year’s Eve is always a display of global celebrations, with fireworks and other jubilations in many countries. Families and friends get together rounding up the year to celebrate the new hope and new dreams that the coming year will bring. It is also another excuse for some to indulge in…
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge Lovers share a sacred decree – to seek the Beloved Rumi, ‘One Whisper of the Beloved’ Each man has his own Paradise, woven from dreams and fantasies personal to him. Each mind paints a different picture of the abode of bliss. Within the Islamic tradition however, the true ‘lover’ accepts no Paradise…
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot, UK Ever since shopping became so commercialised certain days are heavily promoted; Christmas, of course, because there are so many presents to buy, special days for mothers, fathers and grandparents, Valentine, and the list goes on. Most of these days are ostensibly for pleasant reasons, some religious in origin and some not.…
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by Aalia Qureshi, London, UK Thoughts of a Teenager Once again, the dazzling, long-awaited season of summer among its incessant delights has at long last reached us. Another year has passed us by in the blink of an eye. And this can mean only one thing for the Ahmadiyya Community; the blessed Jalsa Salana – Annual…
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Aalia Qureshi, London, UK What is the meaning of travel? The urge to cross these colossal bodies of water into regions never before seen to us mere westerners; what precisely is the pin point motive behind it? Perhaps it is a similar motive behind the continual pursuit for life beyond this planet: curiosity, an impeccably…
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Sarah Khan, London A close friend of mine once recounted to me an action she saw made by a wise person. This spiritual leader took a thread of black and a thread of white. He wound them together so they criss-crossed, becoming intertwined. This, he explained gently, was the path of life. The black represented…
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By Sarah Waseem, London, UK At times of personal and national tragedies we try to make sense of loss and suffering. For the global community, the bombings in Belgium have provoked a lot of soul searching and at times finger pointing. Did the police and security services do enough? Could this have been stopped? Were…
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