Ahmadiyya
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Dur-e-Shewar Anwar, Manchester On the Sunday of the Jalsa Salana UK every year, people across the world gather to once again, pledge their allegiance to Islam, Ahmadiyyat, at the hand of His Holiness, the Caliph of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (may Allah be his Hepler). In homes, families huddle close to whichever screen is tuned
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils… I still remember encountering this poem for the first time, as many of us will have done, in an age its poet deems “apparelled in
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool “Today with the Grace of Allah, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has spread to 206* countries of the world and rather than tiny wooden sheds, Allah has bestowed upon us very large buildings with solid foundations in all parts of the world. Thus, the prophecy within the revelation ‘Enlarge thy house’ has been
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Yusra Dahri, London As my fingers skid across the keyboard, I not only present my thoughts to you, but I influence how you hear them. Is one thing more significant than another? Or another more stressed? What do you hear? Is it it LOUD or quiet? AmIconfusingyourushingyouafterallhowshouldyoubereadingthis? How do you feel when you read this?
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool In many ways, being a teenager is much harder than being an adult. We’re in the years when we have to make decisions that will impact the rest of our lives, even though most of us don’t really know what we want from our lives. Pressure is piled on what with exam
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Christine Sharif, Luton A two day Converts Social & Spiritual Outing took place at Manchester (Mosque) and the Lake District after which a convert to Islam wrote her story. It is hard to fully express the incredible experience of being together with other people from such diverse backgrounds, so many different national and ethnic origins
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Why Islam Ahmadiyyat? By Samina Silver, Redbridge North Yes, I was a Zionist Jew And I hated Muslims just like you A Muslim man fell in the street So I helped him to his feet I picked up the Quran, his holy Book Ask me why, I would never look Some Israelis were offended and
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Maleeha Mansur, Hayes With the Muslim world in such division and disarray, some would say that much like how Pope Francis has embarked on a project of ‘modernising’ the Catholic Church, perhaps Islam too is in need of a reformation. Many Muslims would indeed be furious at such a proposal, after all, Islam claims to be the last and most
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot The Metro newspaper had a story a couple of days ago about a terror response exercise on the river Thames; as events unfolded in Westminster yesterday afternoon it felt surreal as if reality and training were merging. Three members of the public died and dozens are being treated for extensive injuries after
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge Once upon a time, a poet of the British Isles remarked “the flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly”. He wrote in praise of a beauty that was hidden, a charm that was veiled and a loveliness that sought no advertisement. A flower whose fragrance was all the more sweeter and
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