Source & Credit: El Quetzalteco | Guatemala
Reported by El Quetzalteco | May 15, 2010
Edited & updated by Ahmadiyya Times staff
The worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community whose motto is "Love for all hatred for none" has established its mission in Quetzaltenango.
The center, located at 23 Avenida 3-09 Zone 3, promotes various activities that include the dissemination of Islamic values such as focus on peace, love of God and respect for His creation.
The mission house has prayer room and library where many books in Spanish and many translations of the Holy Quran in various languages are available .
This is the second Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission House in Guatemala. The first mission was established some 20 years ago in Guatemala City.
In addressing the establishment of the second mission house in this south American country, Maulana Abdus Sattar Khan, President and Imam of the AMC- Guatemala, recounts the instances from the life of the Holy Founder of Islam, Prophet Muhammad, who had suffered great difficulties for many long years at the start of his ministry.
Mr. David Gonzalez, the General Secretary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Guatemala states that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community exists in 197 countries of the world, has built more than 15,000 mosques and attracted tens of millions of followers.
“The belief in the Unity of God is of central significance in Islam,” said David Gonzalez. “It is by worshiping Him and turning to Him always that humanity could find peace and achieve happiness.”
“Do not think that the evil deeds of some so-called Muslims means that Islam teaches violence,” said Gonzalez. “No, It does not,” he reinforced.
Dr. Waseem Sayed, who had also supervised the opening of the 1st Mission in Guatemala expressed his gratitude to God Almighty and quoted from the writing of the Holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
"The purpose of this Community is to bring into being a group of men who are models of rectitude and virtue, so that a large number of these virtuous people exert their influence on the people by their exemplary lives of high moral and spiritual qualities and their solidarity becomes a source of great blessing, grandeur and positive consequences for humanity," Dr, Sayed quoted.
Read the source article here: For spread of Islam in Xela | Difunden cultura islámica en Xela
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