Brazil: 19th Annual Convention of Ahmadi Muslims held in Petrópolis

In the concluding speech, Wasim Ahmad Zafar, national president and missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Brazil, introduced the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and stressed the need of continuously building moral characters. 

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By Staff Reporter | April 27, 2012

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Brazil held it 19th Annual Convention on April 14 and 15 at their Mission House in Petrópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

The two-day event, affectionately known as Jalsa Salana, reported a peak attendance of nearly one hundred people and a message sent by the Khalīfa of Islām, His Hilliness Mirzā Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, was read out to the attendees.

His Holiness Ahmad, who resides in London, UK, sent a special 5-pages message for the participants and Ahmadis of Brazil stressing that only morality and lives guided under the boundaries of morality can successfully fight the societal ills of this time.

Hadhrat Ahmad further said that the stated purpose of the mission initiated by the Holy Founder of Islām, the Holy Prophet Muhammd was to help mankind advance in morality.

Several dignitaries from various walks of life, members of other faiths, and some members from interfaith clergy specially attended the convention.

All visitors stressed the need of interfaith dialogue and appreciated the Ahmadiyya Muslim tradition of advancing the cause of interfaith harmony.

A representative from the Mayer’s office also attended the event.

In the concluding speech, Wasim Ahmad Zafar, national president and missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Brazil, introduced the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and stressed the need of continuously building moral characters.

The event ended with silent prayers led by Missionary Zafar, where many non-Muslim attendees joined the prayers according to their own fiath’s dictates.

As per the tradition of the institution of Jalsa Salana, all attendees of the convention were served meals and the guests reportedly enjoyed the Pakistan and Indian style dishes.

  -- Brazil: 19th Annual Convention of Ahmadi Muslims held in Petrópolis

  -- Ahmadiyya Times

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