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| Ahmadiyya leader viewing funeral proceedings via an audio-visual hookup from Rabwah, Pakistan. |
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune / Ahmadiyya Times
By Shamsul Islam -ET / Imran Jattala -AT | July 31, 2011
RABWAH: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community leader Mirza Masroor Ahmed’s mother Sahibzadi Nasira Begum passed away on Friday evening and was laid to rest in “Bahishti Maqbara” (Heavely Graveyard) in Chenab Nagar on Saturday.
Executive Director of Jamaat-i-Ahmadiya Pakistan Mirza Khurshaid Ahmad, led the funeral prayers for the late Sahibzadi Nasira Begum.
The funeral was attended by 45,000 people and scores of volunteers were also present around the graveyard for security.
Earlier, the body of deceased was placed at Darul Ziafat (Guest House) at 5.15pm.
Millions of Ahmadiyya viewers and well-wisher worldwide joined the Ahmadiyya leader in viewing of the funeral proceedings via an audio-visual hookup from Rabwah, Pakistan. The video stream was being re-broadcast live from London via the Ahmadiyya satellite television channel, Muslim Telivision Ahmadiyya, International.
Born in 1911 in India, Sahibzadi Nasira Begum was 100 years old at the time of her passing.
Sahibzadi Sahiba was the eldest daughter of Mirza Bashirud Din Mahmood Ahmad, who was elected on March 14, 1914, at the age of 25, as the second successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the founder of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
Her brothers’ Mirza Nasir Ahmad and Mirza Tahir Ahmad were 3rd and 4th spiritual leaders of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, respectively.
She is survived by two daughters and three sons.
-- Original reporting and published in The Express Tribune, July 31th, 2011.
-- Edited by Ahmadiyya Times.
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