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Est. 1897 • Relaunched 2018 • The English weekly newspaper for Ahmadi Muslims around the world.
Mar 27, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Beware of deceitful ‘scholars’, as we unveil false allegations about the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad & Islam Ahmadiyya connections

⬇️ Here are the real facts @YasirQadhi
alhakam.org/islam-ahmadiyy… Muslim scholars in the West are now failing to hide their jealousy and openly telling #Muslim youth that since the Ahmadiyya are now seen as the face of Islam – through preaching Islam more actively than ever before – they need to be condemned publicly.
Mar 27, 2023 25 tweets 7 min read
Under the unifying leadership of Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya, the Ahmadiyya #Muslim Community @AhmadiyyaUSA @TrueIslamUSA has played a critical role in preaching & spreading #Islam in the USA 🇺🇸, amid fierce backlash & hurdles.

🧵 A brief history: Mufti M Sadiq (Ra) arrived in America in 1920. Richard Turner states: "In the nineteenth century, the Ahmadis began to formulate plans to revitalize Islam as a world religion by missionizing the Western hemisphere...
Mar 26, 2023 22 tweets 6 min read
🧵Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (Ra) - The Missionary who revived #ISLAM in America 🇺🇸

'All historians agree that Mufti Sadiq’s steps on American soil served as the dawn of an Islamic identity in America.' (The Cambridge Companion to American Islam)

What academics say 👇 Mufti Sadiq (ra) was the first Ahmadi Muslim missionary to take the message of #Islam to America, and among the very first to actually revive the message of Islam in America.
Mar 20, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
"Know for certain that in this age it is not the sword that is needed but the pen." - Hazrat Ahmad (as)

✒️ The need, importance & blessings of the Promised Messiah's writings:
alhakam.org/the-need-impor… “He will stop the [religious] wars and distribute wealth in such abundance that nobody will accept it.” (Sahih al-Bukhari) This narration indicated the spiritual treasures the Messiah & Mahdi would give through his writings and discourse, not physical wealth.
Mar 20, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
🔑 How siblings can live in peace and harmony

Recently Huzoor (aa) said: “You should show patience. You [should] respect your brother or sister who is older than you and also be kind to those who are younger. And whenever they say something wrong...

🧵(1/4) “you [should] always show patience. Your tolerance level should be very high. And, also at the same time, when you see something wrong in them, and they are teasing you, you get annoyed...say:

اَسْتَغفِرُاللهَ رَبِّيْ مِنْ كُلِّ ذَنْبٍ وَّاَتُوْبُ اِلَيْه
Mar 19, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
🥄Can a #Muslim eat at a Christian friend's house?

Huzoor (aa) recently said: “When they are cooking, they might say they have taken the name of Jesus. Normally they do not do [this] ...

🧵 “So, creating so many things in your mind, developing something in your mind that ‘they might have done this thing or that thing,’ [is unnecessary]. As I just mentioned in my last sermon, yesterday’s sermon (11 March 2022), Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) said to the army...
Mar 10, 2022 14 tweets 3 min read
🧵THREAD:

Ahmadis on social media who have not shown the best examples concerning obedience to Khilafat.

Huzoor (aa) recently said: “Yes, there are some few Ahmadis on social media [who do this]. The thing is that they are indifferent about religion...

⬇️ (1/14) “If you do some detailed research you will see that most of them do not offer five daily prayers even; not even Friday prayers. They do not discharge their duties they owe to Allah the Almighty. So those who are not discharging their duties towards Allah, how can they be obedient
Mar 9, 2022 10 tweets 2 min read
🧵 ⚔️ Why don't Ahmadi #Muslims wage Jihad by the sword against those who persecute them?

Huzoor (aa) recently said: “The Promised Messiah (as) has said that ‘I have come to this world in this age to establish peace and I have come on the footsteps of the Messiah of Moses.

⬇️ Did Jesus Christ ever fight against his enemies? No. He was persecuted, he was beaten, even he was put on the cross although Allah saved him from there, he tolerated all these things.

“So, the Promised Messiah (as) said that I have come on the footsteps of Jesus...
Mar 8, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
🔗 How to remain resolute in Allah

Huzoor (aa) recently said: “When you have more work and you are absorbed in your worldly activities...then normally it is seen that you don’t pay full attention to your prayers. I take it the other way around...

🧵⬇️ “Nowadays, since you have lost your jobs, there are some problems, whenever a person is in trouble they try to bow before Allah the Almighty more than before.

“You say that ‘how can one remain resolute to Allah the Almighty?’ ...
Mar 8, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵Mariyum Bosu Sahiba asked what expectations Huzoor (aa) had from @PAAMA_UK Lajna members.

Huzoor said:“The same expectations as they are for men and boys. Lajna should also make their plan and programme, they should also spread the message of true Islam...

#IWD2022 ⬇️ they should also try to increase their religious knowledge, general knowledge, they should also try to be good – even better than the men – in morals and even sometimes you guide the men. Your responsibility is to raise your children in the best way, in the best manner...
Mar 7, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵🇵🇰 6 March 1953: A brutal wave of anti-Ahmadiyya riots, murders, looting & attacks on the life and properties of Ahmadi Muslims spread across #Pakistan. The government’s inquiry commission labelled this day similar to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of France in 1572.

⬇️ In #Lahore alone, three Ahmadis embraced martyrdom: Muhammad Shafi Sahib, Jamal Ahmad Sahib and Mirza Karim Baig Sahib. Due to the failure of civil authorities, a curfew was imposed on this day at 1:30 pm in an attempt to prevent the ongoing systematic killings of Ahmadi Muslims.
Jan 5, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
🧵Finding a suitable partner

Answering a question on this topic, Huzoor (aa) advised: “The Holy Prophet (sa) gave us a general rule of thumb by taking a particular case; the very case you are describing: finding a life partner.

⬇️(1/9) “He instructed us that when finding a suitable partner for marriage, people look for three or four factors.” This included family status, wealth and beauty. However, “The Holy Prophet (sa) said these three factors are worldly desires. (2/9)
Jan 5, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
The current state of the 🌎- Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aa) said: “You see, if people do not recognise their Creator and their Lord – Allah the Almighty – and do not discharge their duties to Him and what Allah the Almighty has told us to do, if they do not do it, (1/7) “then the world is going to doom itself very fast. This is why we are here. We have to let the people understand that ‘if you do not practice what Allah the Almighty has said, if you do not change yourself, then this is going to be your fate’. (2/7)
Jan 4, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
🏋️Bodybuilding &🚴exercise to look good physically

Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aa) recently said: “If someone wants to look good, then how can I stop them? If they do this... 🧵(1/7) “there’s a double benefit; health improves and the body gets fitness too – both things are achieved. As long as the intention is pure, that 'we are going to improve our health, and we will improve our health so we can fulfil our dues owed to Allah the Almighty.'” (2/7)
Jan 3, 2022 10 tweets 2 min read
True justice according to #Islam⚖️

"... if one wants to seek recompense for being wronged, then it must only be to the extent of the wrong committed, and even then the matter should be put before a person in authority."

🧵(1/9) اِنَّ اللّٰہَ یَاۡمُرُ بِالۡعَدۡلِ وَ الۡاِحۡسَانِ وَ اِیۡتَآیِٔ ذِی الۡقُرۡبٰی

'Verily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred.' (2/9)
Jan 3, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Superficial Oaths of Allegiance

"A superficial oath of allegiance to a spiritual guide brings no benefit and it is difficult to derive any gain from such an oath of allegiance."

- The Promised Messiah (as)

🧵(1/6) "A person shall truly reap benefit only when they abandon their ego and attach themselves to this person with abiding love and sincerity. Since the hypocrites did not possess a true relationship with the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, (2/6)