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  • Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn *Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Some days ago, when I wrote a blog about the experience of witnessing fear turning into security and peace because of Khilafat [Caliphate], I did not know that the following Friday, Huzoor,

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  • The Letter Home

    Yusra Dahri, Tilford It’s cold and I want to go home.I’m writing this letter because I’m desperate.Everyone on this street calls me crazy. They say there’s no home to go back to,That I came from nowhere.If my house really existedI should remember the address.I should know where to sendThis thin letter– and I don’t. I

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  • Light of the Lamp

    Arfa Yassir, Swindon “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” –  Socrates, regarded as the founder of Western philosophy, is known to have said. In this day and age, in context of religious knowledge, I cannot resist but say the Promised Messiah (peace be on him) also kindled a

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  • *Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Yusra Dahri, Tilford Last year, I wrote an article entitled ‘Our Khalifa in the Quiet: the Greatness of Humility’ about His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad – my grandfather. It was my first time writing an

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  • Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Each individual has a handful of experiences which turn out to be imperative towards their understanding of the world. One such moment, for me, was at the age of 16 or 17 when I attended an event organised at the mosque by the Ahmadiyya Women’s Student’s Association where women of various

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  • *Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community* A Lajna Member, London “Hold fast, all together, by the rope of Allah and be not divided…” (3:104) A few months ago, my husband was diagnosed with cancer. It’s a word we hear often and

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  • Amtul Hayyi Sossan Ahmad, London Whenever someone has said to me that there is no God and I have responded that there is, although surprised by my conviction, what has always had a real impact on them are the words that ‘we have seen Him and found every beauty in Him’[1] and you can see

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  • *Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community* Rameen Masood, Leicester ‘If you aim to progress and be triumphant over the world, then my advice to you and my message for you is to maintain a bond with Khilafat and to firmly hold

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  • *Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community* Munazza Mateen Malik, Malden Manor We all go through stormy seas. Some face higher waters than others and everyone deals with their storms differently. When I would go through times that were toughest for me,

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