Islam
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Dr Qurratul-Ain Rehman, London It is in our nature to look forward to the future and to wish and hope for something better for ourselves, our families and the world at the start of the New Year. There is also an element of self-reflection on our failings and achievements over the past year and we
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hampshire Grief sends tremors through the living with monstrous force. It causes changes in behaviour, sleep, body function. It affects the immune system, it makes the sufferer spend whole periods of time wrapped in a brain fog, repressing and warping their memory forever. Right now, we are witnessing grief on an unprecedented scale.
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To celebrate Lajna Ima’illah’s Centenary, Lajna UK has created 19 different postcards to help Lajna members to immerse themselves in their history. These postcards are semi-fictional. Whilst they are based upon real events, locations and time periods, the letters themselves were written by current Lajna members. We handed out these postcards during Jalsa Salana UK
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Maleeha Mansur, Hayes “Allah has made you brethren one to another, so be not divided. An Arab has no preference over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab over an Arab; nor is a white one to be preferred to a dark one, nor a dark one to a white one.” (The Holy Prophet – peace and
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Reflections of guests and volunteers of Jalsa UK, compiled by Sameea Jonnud Months of preparations, thousands of workers and tens of thousands of guests have played their part in Jalsa Salana 2023. This Jalsa was special as it was the first international one since 2019 and particularly for Lajna as it fell during the centenary
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Unaizah Ahmad, Inner Park With the preparations completed, duty holders were diligently engaged in their work, ladies spent the morning queuing up for entrance to the main Marquee and many have gave husbands babysitting duties for the day. A more-than-usual jubilant atmosphere took over the Ladies Jalsa Gah and faces were adorned with broader smiles.
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Cemal Inam, Thornton Heath So, the blessed three-day journey has begun and what a start it has been. Despite the mud and the expected rain, Lajna Ima’illah are braving the conditions at Hadeeqatul Madhi to start the weekend, serving the guests of the Promised Messiah (peace be upon him). Many who have attended Jalsa Salana
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This episode of British Muslim Women’s podcast begins by marking the 57th Jalsa Salana or annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK as Dur-e-Shewar Anwar and Shumaila Iftikhar get together to discuss how Ahmadiyya Khilafat has empowered Lajna since its inception in 1922, ever encouraging them to take ownership of their faith and recognise
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Yusra Dahri, Tilford My teenage years revolved mostly around one, self-absorbed question: what is my purpose? Now, as a Muslim I knew that my purpose was to worship Allah, but unfortunately I was too absorbed into Western individualism to properly accept this answer. Surely that couldn’t be all? I wanted to have an additional cool,
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Iffat Mirza, Cambridge The future tense is such a beautiful thing that we have in many languages. There is no greater affirmation that being told you can and will do something. The promise of being able to use your abilities to achieve, create, learn, teach etc is a precious thing to recognise in ourselves, others,
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