In an internationally televised live broadcast via satellite, millions around the world will join tens of thousands of Muslims in the UK, including hundreds of British converts, to pledge allegiance to the Islamic Khalifa (Caliph) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
Source/Credit: AMJ - UK | Press office
By Staff report | August 14, 2014
The UK's longest standing and largest Muslim convention, Jalsa Salana, returns to Hampshire for its 48th edition from Friday the 29th to Sunday the 31st of August 2014.
Organizers anticipate over 30,000 Muslim and non-Muslim guests from the UK and around the world including royalty, clergy from a range of faiths, ministers of states, academics and dignitaries will join the event at the most spiritually charged retreat the British summer has to offer.
The Khalifa of Islam, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will the keynote speaker.
His Holiness Ahmad will address the delegates five times during the course of the convention and various other speakers from around the world will also take to the stage, it is reported.
The organizers says that Oaklands Farm will be transformed into a mini-city complete with prayer halls, hospitality tents, camping sites, a 'bazaar' or shopping market, a bread-baking plant, an international television studio, bookshops and exhibitions.
In an internationally televised live broadcast via satellite, millions around the world will join tens of thousands of Muslims in the UK, including hundreds of British converts, to pledge allegiance to the Islamic Khalifa (Caliph) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
The convention will be hosted by 5,000 British Muslim volunteers, including over 2,000 Muslim women.
It is unique event, the community says, as Muslims gather to promote peace, tolerance and love. It is the event that will showcase the true face of Islam.
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