"It showed that Islam is a religion of peace and love and that it teaches different communities to live together in harmony, just as at the time of the Holy Prophet (s)."
Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times
By Imran Jattala | May 1, 2013
Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon is slated to speak at the "100 years of propagation of Islam in the UK" celebrations organized by Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam, Lahore (AAIIL).
According to a press release issued by AAIIL, the faction will commemorate their work by marking their leader's arrival in the UK one hundred years ago in 1913.
The AAIIL press release states that Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, the founder of the Woking Muslim Mission and Literary Trust, was inspired by the teaching of the Ahmadiyya founder Mirza Ghulam Ahamd of Qadian, India.
"It showed that Islam is a religion of peace and love and that it teaches different communities to live together in harmony, just as at the time of the Holy Prophet (s)," the statement reads." As is our motto, the Khwaja also believed that the word Islam stands for ‘I Shall Love All Mankind’."
Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam Lahore, also known as the Lahoris, is a splinter group of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
Lord Tariq Ahmad, a prominent member of the main Ahmadi Muslim Community in the UK, hosts a popular television program ‘Faith Matters’ seen internationally on Muslim Television Ahmadiyya, International.
Lord Ahmad has previously served as vice-president of Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, a British youth organization.
The celebration will be held at H. G. Wells Conference and Events Centre, Church Street East, Woking, the release further reported.
Along with Lord Tariq Ahmad, other speakers include Prof. Dr Abdul Karim Saeed, Ameer, AAIIL; the Deputy Mayor of Woking, Councillor Anne Roberts; Rt Hon Jonathan Lord, MP; Dr Zahid Aziz; Dr Hargey, Imam from Oxford; Ray Morgan, OBE, CPFA, Chief Executive, Woking Borough Council; Mr Amir Aziz, Secretary General, AAIIL; Dr Gerdien Jonker, PhD, A scholar in the History and Ethnography of Religion.
AAIIL was formed in 1914 as a result of their decision to reject the Ahmadiyya founder's vision of Qudrah al-Thāniyyah, the "Second Manifestation of God's power" or Khilafat-e Ahmadiyya - a continuous spiritual leadership - that has been established in the larger Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam since 1908.
Although the leaders who later formed AAIIL, had accepted Maulana Hakim Noorud Din as the first Khalifa after the death of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the community's founder, in 1908, however, in 1914 they did not agree to the continuity of the spiritual leadership and formed their splinter group in Lahore, Punjab.
Although the leaders who later formed AAIIL, had accepted Maulana Hakim Noorud Din as the first Khalifa after the death of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the community's founder, in 1908, however, in 1914 they did not agree to the continuity of the spiritual leadership and formed their splinter group in Lahore, Punjab.
-- UK: Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon will speak at AAIIL event
-- Ahmadiyya Times
-- By Imran Jattala. Follow on Twitter: @IJattala
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