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Qudsia Ward, Cornwall At this time of year in the UK, members of the Ahmadi Muslim Community are finalising plans for their annual Ijtemas*. Speeches are being practiced and timed, poems polished, handicraft models and craft work completed, other skills honed. Travel plans are being made, checking with friends and family how to reach our
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge “What’s in a name?” the Bard once mused. “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”. Islam, so we are told, “literally means peace”. With this pronouncement, it is hoped all arguments critical of Islam will melt away. Or perhaps not quite. The fundamental problem with
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By Navida Sayed Khilafat is a very important concept in Islam which safeguards permanence of religion. Khilafat, which is also referred to as Caliphate in the western world, began in Islam with the four consecutive Rightly-Guided Khalifas who led Muslims after the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s (peace be on him) death. However Prophet Muhammad (peace be
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– Luton & Bedford Poppy Appeal Fundraising 2016 by Mrs Hamida Iqbal, Luton, UK God says in the Holy Qur’an, chapter 2, verse 198. “.. And whatever good you do, Allah knows it…” And in a tradition of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, Abu Musa Ash’ari relates that the Holy Prophet (peace be
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