The Muslim News

Next Meeting
Speakers: Dr Jawad Ahmad
Date: Sunday, 6 November, 2016
Time: 15:00
Venue: 15 Stanley Avenue,
Wembley, HA0 4JQ

News
Suriname
A noteworthy development has taken place in Suriname,
which deserves to be recorded. Mr.
Ishaq Rosan is an important
member of the Suriname jamaat
and president of the Meerzor g
branch.
He
owns
a
civil
engineering and water supply
business, which recently won a
substantial contract from the
government to lay water pipes for
outlying areas.
To thank Allah, he
decided to renovate many of the
Lahore-Ahmadiyya Mosques in
Suriname and to install air
conditioning in them. He is also
building a new mosque at
Waterloo
in Nickerie,
for
members in that area. He is

Dr Zahid Aziz waiting to lead Jummah at

Paramaribo. The imam introducing him.

November 2016

Issue 51

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Friday English khutba and

monthly English lecture.

Day: Sunday

Friday broadcasts: 13:00

Monthly broadcasts: First
Sunday of each month at 15:00.
Mosque being built at Waterloo
Suriname by Mr. Ishaq Rosan.

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Time: 09:00 am (UK time)

Missionary tour of Suriname

and Guyana
Mr. Shahid Aziz and Dr.
Zahid Aziz have undertaken a long
missionary tour of Suriname and
Guyana at the invitation of Mr.
Robbert Bippat, the Centres
coordinator for South America.

Dr Zahid Aziz, Mrs Mary Ghafoer Khan,

her sister, and Maurits Hassankhan, a
historian specialising in documenting
history of people from India to
Suriname.

spending 100,000 Euro on this

project. We request all members
to pray to Allah to greatly
reward him for his efforts.

Dr Aziz, training imams ,

lectures on Ahmadiyyat.

This was a continuation of

their previous two tours when
they visited only Suriname. The
purpose was to teach members of
the Lahore-Ahmadiyya jamaat in
Suriname
the
distinguishing

A public Jalsa at Paramaribo a

view of audience.

Moefidoel Islam Mosque,

renovated this year.

Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore (UK)

15 Stanley Avenue, Wembley, UK, HA0 4JQ
Info@aaiil.uk

features of our organization. And,

to make them aware of the fact that
we are not the same as Sunnis or
Qadianis and that we dont care
about their fatwahs about our
status. All Muslims have the same
fundamental beliefs but after that
we have a different set of beliefs
from others. We have our own
organization which takes its own
decisions about various matters ,
independently of what others say
or believe. This point was well
taken and members, both in
Guyana and Suriname, agreed to
highlight
the
distinguishing
features of the Lahore-Ahmadiy y a
Movement rather than similarities .
In addition,
speeches
were
recorded for radio and T.V which
will be broadcast after they had
left Suriname.
By Allahs grace all the
courses were very successful in
achieving this objective. Although,
the main course was run in
Paramaribo, many other areas
were visited
and member s
addressed.
Dr. Zahid Aziz left the UK
on
September and Mr. Shahid
Aziz followed on 19th September .
They were accommodated in the
guest house located next to the
main mosque in Paramaribo .
Members would gather for the Fajr
prayers, after the prayers a short
dars of the Holy Quran was given.
Tea and biscuits were served in the
hall below, after the dars and then
members went to work.

spent carrying out research and

preparing Power Point slides for
the evening lecture. Approximately, 16 men and women
attended the lectures and training
as Ahmadi missionaries. Some of
these are in their early twenties.
In
addition,
on
the
weekend, there were public jalsas
in different areas, which were
attended by members in greater
numbers. The jalsa in the central
mosque in Paramaribo
was
attended by around 125 people.
Other jalsas were held in
surrounding villages.
In addition to lectures and jalsas ,
people who had known Hazrat
Maulana Abdul Haque Vidyarthi
were
traced.
They
were
interviewed and asked if they had
any information about Hazrat
Maulanas time in Suriname. We
hope that this will provide
invaluable material about him
which can be made available on
the web-site regarding his life.

Guyana trip

17th

Members then gather ed

again at the time of Maghrib
prayers. After Isha prayers there
was a presentation/lecture. Many
of these had been prepared by the
presenters while they were in the
UK while others had to prepar ed
on the spot to deal with questions
as they arose. Their day was thus

Muhammad
Anwar
Shaheed
Memorial
Library at
Brickdam
Mosque,
George
Town.

Say not of those who lay down their

lives for Allah, they are dead. They are
not dead they have attained life eternal.

Nickerie.
On Friday morning, 30th,
the delegation left for Guyana. This
meant a long drive to the ferry port
followed by a 45-minute crossing
of the river. The jamaat has a
mosque in a village near the
border and the plan was to say the
Friday prayers at that mosque.
However, the delays at the
customs made this impossible.
Also, the UK delegates needed reentry visas for Suriname and had
to be at the Suriname embassy by
1500. At the border Mr Ishaq Khan,
President of the Guyana jamaat
and a young man Wasim received
delegates.
Mr.
Khan
then
accompanied the delegates on the
three-hour drive to George Town.
Mr.
Mansoor
Bakhsh,
imam at the Brickdam Mosque,

George Town, Guyana The Brickdam

Mosque.

On 29/09 a delegatio n
consisting of Mr Robbert Bipat, Mr.
Ishaq Rosan and his wife, Mr.
Sjaikh Kaseim, Mr Shahid Aziz and
Dr Zahid Aziz left for Nickeri. They
were accommodated in the hous e
Mr. Ishaq Rosan has in that area.
On the way they visited mosques
of the jamaat in different areas and
in the evening they attended a jals a
in the jamaats main mosque in

50 Louisa Row, the home of late Majid

Ali. The address and the mosque from
which The Guyana Lahore-Ahmadiy y a
started.

The Promised Messiahs revelation: And your teaching shall be

received in all corners of the
world. has come true! Delegat es
then retraced their steps to George

Left to right: Dr Zahid Aziz (UK), Maulvi

Rasheed who, in early days, played a
leading role as missionary, Mr. Ishaq
Rosan (Suriname), Mr. Shahid Aziz (UK).

met the delegates at the Suriname

Embassy. After visa formalities
were over, he accompanied them
to Brickdam Mosque. It is a very
large mosque built in a very posh
area. It is just down the road from
the parliament building. In terms
of London it would like having the
mosque in Trafalgar Square. On
Saturday, the local George Town
jamaat arranged a jalsa to meet
and greet the guests.
On Sunday, the delegatio n,
which now included people from
Guyana such as Mr Mansoor
Bakhsh, left to visit the jamaats in
Essequibo Coast area. Delegat es

A Hindu pandit (front) who embraced

Islam, with Mr. Ishaq Rosan.

Town, arriving very tired but

inspired by what they saw.
Public jalsa at Essequibo Coast attended
by about 300 members. Mr. Mansoor
Bakhsh and Mr. Sjaikh Kaseim can be
seen at the front.

bus waited at the other end for a

drive which took about an hour or
so.
Around 300 people waited
for the delegates to arrive. They
warmly received everyone and
keenly listened to all the speeches .
Their enthusiasm and dedicatio n
to the Lahore-Ahmadiyya Movement was amazing to behold! We
learnt that if we had driven on for
another half hour and crossed
another river which takes another
half hour and then driven for a

Boat ride to Essequebo. Mr Robbert

Bippat and Dr Zahid Aziz

left the hotel at 06:00 to drive to a

ferry port about two hours drive.
The mini-bus was left at the river
side and people boarded a powerboat which had been hired. This
was in preference to the ferry
which takes two hours to cross the
water. The power boat took about
45 minutes. Mr Ishaq Khan,
President of the Guyana Jamaat ,
welcomed the delegates. A rented

Mr. Mansoor Bakhsh is trying

to acquire a small piece of
land, the spot where
Muhammad Anwar Shaheed
laid down his life for Allah,
and construct a memorial
there in Anwar Shaheeds
memory.

Return to Suriname
The following day they
returned to Paramaribo, leaving
the hotel at 07:00 and arriving
back at around 22:00 with a twohour break.
On Thursday 6 October, Mr
Ishaq Rosan sent a car to take the
overseas delegates to Meerzor g.
Mr. Rosan and his wife then took
them to visit different LahoreAhmadiyya mosques in that area,
including Kroonenburg. This has
about 14 families and a small
mosque. This involved a drive and
a boat ride to a very swampy area
where
bugs,
insects
an d
mosquitoes are a problem for the
locals. Mr Rosan hopes to install air
conditioning in that mosque in the
near future. Some families were
paid a visit.
In the evening, there was a

Mr Ishaq Khan, President of Guyana

jamaat addressing the jalsa.

further 30 minutes, there are four

villages with Lahore-Ahmadiy y a
jamaats. We hope that at next trip
we will visit those jamaats as well.

Mosque in a little village Kroonenburg.

public jalsa in the main mosque

where, as at other places, it was
emphasized that Ahmadis are a
separate and distinct Islamic
organization. We only follow our
own Center and no one else. The
need for baiat, payment of regular
monthly subscription and leaving
some assets to the jamaat in the
will, were emphasized.

invited and the programme was

broadcast on RBB television.
Another representative of Muslims
from India also attended the
Ceremony.

Members were astonished to hear that Sunnis believ e

parts of the Holy Quran are
abrogated and that some verses
are missing from it. They were
also amazed to hear that Sunnis
believe
the Holy
Prophet
Muhammad married a six-year
old girl, kept women as wive s
without marrying them etc.

30th September 2016,

after Friday Prayer a group of 25
people from Germany visited the
mosque. They were given a
presentation about AAIIL and the
Mosque. Multimedia presentatio n
is proving very beneficial for this
cause. They were all present ed
with brochures. We had a questio n
answer session as well. It was
clarified to them that Islam is a
peaceful religion and our sole
mission to present this message to
every corner of world.

On Friday 7th there was a

dars after Fajr and a lecture in the
evening, apart from the usual
Friday service. On Saturday, there
was, as on every day, a dars after
Fajr. In the afternoon, Dr Zahid
Aziz left Paramaribo to return to
the UK.
On Sunday 9th there was a
dars, which the history of belief in
God was discussed and why it was
important to believe that there
was a single Divine Being. The last
of
the
UK
delegates
left
Paramaribo on Tuesday 11th.

Germany
By Amir Aziz
A most important achievement - District Government ,
Wilmersdorf, has allocated a tract
of land for a graveyard for
Muslims. I was invited for
inauguration ceremony. I was the
only Imam who represent ed
Muslims
and
thanked
the
Government for this great favour .
The allocated land has room for
three hundred and thirty graves. It
was big ceremony. Media was

The Mayor and other

participants thanked me for
participation in the inaugurat io n
Ceremony.

Government has announ ced 3rd October 2016 as Open Day

of Mosques in Germany. This day is
also commemoration of Unification of West and East Germany. We
also participated and the Mosque
was kept open from 11:00 to 5:00
pm. With the blessings of Allah ,
more than 150 people visited the
Mosque and attended the presen tation. Question Answer sessions
were conducted. Leaflets and
literature was distributed.
The Open Day was advertised by the Government and Rbb
Television with the photograph of
our mosque. It was advertised on
Television and other important
places. One of the friends of the
Mosque, Mr. Christian Fessel, saw
the advertisement on the main
train Berlin Station and sent its
photo to me for information.

Pakistan
Hazrat Ameer has arrived
back in Pakistan after a long tour of

Advertisement on the main railway

station with a picture of our mosque.

Germany, Sweden and Holland.

During the Holland tour he opened
a new mosque there. May Allah
bless his efforts. (Amin)

Annual Prayer Meeting

In 1891 CE, the Promised
Messiah invited the whole jamaat ,
as well as others, to an annual
meeting at Christmas time. The
purpose was that members meet
and develop fraternal bonds. Thus,
turning the jamaat into a family
rather
than
just
another
organization. So that members of
the jamaat put the welfare of its
own members before anything
else, just as a family does.
Our Center continues this
tradition under the most difficult
conditions. Please support them in
every way that you can.
The Promised Messiah also
called the jamaat The Army of
Islam. An army is a well-trained
and disciplined force with a chain
of command. An army that lacks in
any of these aspects fails. The same
thing applies to our jamaat.
Let us pray that Allah
keeps our Center safe and that the
Annual Prayer Meeting is, as in
previous years, a great success.
Amin.