“My life is devoted to the cause of peace, harmony and love for all, hatred for none and my doors will always be open to the community members for any help and advice.”
Source/Credit: Frankston Times
By Frankston Times | July 6, 2014
SYED Wadood Janud has been appointed imam at the Ahmadiyya Muslim community’s mosque in Langwarrin.
Mr Janud, the first Australian Ahmadiyya missionary, completed his primary and secondary schooling in Adelaide before attending his degree in Islamic theology and comparative religions in Canada.
The seven-years course at the Ahmadiyya Institute of Islamic Studies, in Maple, Canada, was followed by six months as an imam of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Liberia.
Mr Janud sees his main role at the Ahmadiyya Centre Melbourne in Langwarrin (formally known as Bait-ul-Islam or House of Peace) as being “to lead prayers and train members in religious matters but I would also work for interfaith harmony and to build bridges between communities.”
“My life is devoted to the cause of peace, harmony and love for all, hatred for none and my doors will always be open to the community members for any help and advice.”
The president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Victoria, Javed Safdar Choudhary, said the appointment of new Imam at Langwarrin “dawns a new era in our efforts to work closely on community relations and make bridges.”
Al Islam, the “official” website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, describes the community as “the leading Islamic organization to categorically reject terrorism in any form” with its then leader, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, more than a century ago declaring, “that an aggressive ‘jihd by the sword’ has no place in Islam”.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s headquarters are in the United Kingdom and, according to the website, it has built more than 15,000 mosques, more than 500 schools, and more than 30 hospitals and translated Quran into more than 70 languages.
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