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7 unusual facts about Ahmadiyya


John Sidel

He has also begun work on a study of intolerance and persecution of religious deviance across the Muslim world, with a special focus on the treatment of the Ahmadiyya minority in a range of countries across Asia and Africa.

Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad

Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad (February 28, 1913 – July 23, 2002), commonly known as MM Ahmad, was a Pakistani civil servant and a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad

During his Caliphate, the community experienced structural and financial growth including the launch of the first Muslim satellite television network, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya, in 1994.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad was the grandson the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, he was the son of Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the second Caliph from his wife Syeda Maryam Begum, and was the half-brother of Mirza Nasir Ahmad, the third Caliph.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

In the 1953 bloody Lahore riots, religious extremists called for Zafarullah Khan's expulsion due to his adherence to the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith.

Qadiani Problem

To adherents of Ahmadiyya, however, sees the book as inciting hatred against community members.

Wallace Fard Muhammad

In 1981, Pakistani scholar Zafar Ishaq Ansari researched Fard's life and claimed that Fard was identical with Muhammad Abdullah, a Pakistani Ahmadiyya Muslim.


Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

Mirza Nasir Ahmad, 3rd Khalīfatul Masīh, spoke himself for the Ahmadiyya community at the National Assembly of Pakistan, laid the foundation of the first mosque in Spain after 750 years.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 4th Khalīfatul Masīh,led the community through periods of severe persecution, provisionally changed the Ahmadiyya headquarters from Rabwah to London and launched the first Ahmadiyya satellite TV channel by the name of Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International.

Basharat Mosque

The Basharat Mosque (span.: Mezquita Basharat; the name means “good news”) was inaugurated on September 10, 1982 in Pedro Abad, in the Spanish comarca of Alto Guadalquivir, province of Córdoba by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (late), fourth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (currently fifth Caliph Mirza Masroor Ahmad heads the Community).

Bashir Ahmad

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1889–1965), Khalifatul Masih II of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Fazl-e-Omar Hospital

The centre is to be named after the fourth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, who died in April 2003 and whose desire it was to have such a centre in Rabwah.

Islam in Jamaica

Outside of Kingston, organizations include Masjid Al Haq in Mandeville, Masjid Al-Ihsan in Negril, Masjid-Al-Hikmah in Ocho Rios, the Port Maria Islamic Center in Saint Mary and the Ahmadiyya Mahdi Mosque in Old Harbour.

Jalsa Salana

In 2004 from 3 to 5 September, the 22nd Jalsa Salana was held in the presence of Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, in the multi-purpose hall of Forch near Zurich.

Moreover, in 2008, in attendance, among many of the distinguished guests was the President of Ghana, John Kufuor in which he congratulated the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on its Centenary celebrations and referred to the Caliph as a brother, friend and teacher to the people of Ghana.

Kampala

The Ahmadiyya Central Mosque in Kampala is the central mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which has six minarets and can hold up to 9,000 worshippers.

Khwaja Nazir Ahmad

Prior to partition in 1948 he toured Kashmir with Aziz Kashmiri, editor of the Ahmadiyya weekly paper in Srinagar, looking for evidence supporting the claim of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad made in 1899, that the Roza Bal shrine of the holy man Yuz Asaf in Srinagar is the grave of Jesus of Nazareth.

Mirza Tahir

Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928–2003), fourth Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Noor Mosque

Before the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1985 bought the „Nasir Bagh“ in Groß-Gerau, the annual gathering Jalsa Salana in Germay was celebrated in this mosque.

Promised messiah

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam and commonly referred to as promised messiah by Ahmadis

Tomb of Jesus

Roza Bal in Srinagar, India, a shrine venerated by locals and Ahmadiyya Muslims as the grave of a sage named Yuz Asaf, or "son of Joseph"


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