Equally memorable was the mosque’s on-site marriage bureau, overseen by three, twinkly-eyed, silver-haired elders in Astrakhan hats. They were retired scientists, men of logic and reason who believed in love.
Source/Credit: Daily Express UK
By Matt Baylis | May 27, 2016
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Hangovers are one of the few problems they do not have to face at Inside Britain’s Biggest Mosque (Channel 5). As Muslims, the officials and congregants of the Baitul Futuh Mosque in South London eschew alcohol but they certainly like a good time.
This lively documentary series spent three months following life at the mosque, used by the relatively new Ahmadiyya sect of Islam. Religion was obviously at the heart of things but so was Mr Khan, the softly-spoken generalissimo of day-to-day affairs.
His ring tone was Mission Impossible, which told you something about the job he faced. Unflappably neat and groomed, we last saw Mr Khan in a field in Hampshire, commanding operations for a giant, three-day Ahmadiyya festival for 40,000 people.
Equally memorable was the mosque’s on-site marriage bureau, overseen by three, twinkly-eyed, silver-haired elders in Astrakhan hats. They were retired scientists, men of logic and reason who believed in love.
Love, in general, came across as very important to the Ahmadiyya view of everything. “Love for all and hatred for none,” said the big slogan on the side of their mosque, all of it funded, built and run by community members.
The wider, non-Muslim community use the vast, three-acre site and Ahmadiyya members are active in raising money for non-religious causes. At the end of the programme you had a powerful sense of what faith can achieve. Or perhaps it was what love can achieve. Maybe they are the same thing.
Video link: https://www.my5.tv/britains-biggest-mosque
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