BRITAIN’S biggest annual Islamic gathering took place last weekend at East Worldham, near Alton, when 38,000 Muslims from the Ahmadiyya community gathered in a tented village at Hadeeqatul Mahdi – formerly Oaklands Farm – for the annual three-day Jalsa Salana. Attracting delegates from around the world, this was an opportunity for spiritual refreshment and to…
Tanveer, 12, and Shakeeba, 10, hand out water to the thirsty delegates in the sweltering Hampshire countryside. They are part of a 7,000-strong volunteer force of mainly young people running this event, known as the Jalsa Salana (annual convention), for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Some 38,000 international guests have gathered at an empty farm in…
The Rev. Johnnie Moore, a commissioner with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, speaks at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Jalsa Salana event in Alton, Hampshire, England, on Aug. 4, 2018. Photo courtesy of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ALTON, United Kingdom (RNS) — Johnnie Moore, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers, stood before the Ahmadi caliph and tens…
52nd Jalsa Salana UK concluded by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The 52nd Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 5 August 2018 with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. More than 38,500…
From Friday the 3rd until Sunday the 5th of August over 38,000 people from 115 countries came together in Alton for a Jalsa Salana. The convention, hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, has been running for 52 years in the UK which makes it the longest standing Islamic convention in the UK. Across the 200 acres of…
In response to the comments by Boris Johnson regarding the burqa, Rafiq Hayat, National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK said: “The remarks made by former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are deplorable. Rather than seeking to use his position to promote dialogue and understanding he has used it to mock and ridicule Muslim women….
People travelled from more than 100 countries to Jalsa Salana at a 200-acre farm in Hampshire between Friday, August 3 and Sunday, August 5. Trainee Imam Mustafa Siqqidi, from Monkswood Road, Clayhall, has been attending the annual event for as long as he can remember. He said that the aim of the event was to…
MORE than 30,000 Muslims from 100 countries are attending the UK’s largest Islamic conference on farmland in a Hampshire village this weekend – with organisers keen to push their message of tolerance and counter negative stereotypes. Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addresses followers at last year’s event (Image: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Caliph…
One of the UK’s oldest Muslim communities is to launch an international intervention designed to provide comprehensive solutions towards achieving world peace in light of increasing global tension. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s ‘Pathway to Peace’ campaign aims to present fundamental solutions to some of the biggest challenges currently facing the world, based on the teachings…
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