Lajna Centenary
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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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Faiza Mirza, Gillingham ‘I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah. He is One and has no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (ﷺ) is His servant and His Messenger. I affirm that I shall always be ready to sacrifice my life, property, time and children for the cause of
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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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Munazzah Chou, Farnham Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It allows us to feel compassion and connection with others, empathy can help us to understand and appreciate the experiences of others and helps us to be more considerate and understanding. One experience which elicits abounding empathy among women is
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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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