News: Annual Training Course in Lahore
3rd to 17th July 2005 at Darus Salaam
The Light (UK), August 2005 Issue (p. 2)
The Young Persons Organization at our International Headquarters, called Shaban-ul-Ahmadiyya, held their annual training course at Darus Salaam, Lahore, from 3rd to 17th July 2005. The topics taught included the following:
Life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, the work of the great reformer Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the life and death of Jesus, the status of women in Islam, ‘There are no sects in Islam’, and differences between the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement and the Qadian/Rabwah Section.
The course was formally inaugurated by Hazrat Ameer Prof. Dr. Abdul Karim Saeed. During the course, a debating competition was held. The topics for the senior section of the students were:
Ahmadiyyat is true Islam, ‘I am one to whom God speaks but I am not a prophet’, Importance of propagation work in Islam, Obedience to the Ameer, The path to heaven through living in this world, and the need to associate yourself with the Jamaat.
Before the course, one of the lecturers had e-mailed me to provide him with material on the life of the late Hafiz Sher Muhammad. I forwarded him three articles that had been published shortly after his death: one by Chaudry Masud Akhtar (1990), another by myself (1991) and a third by Mr. Shahid Aziz (1992). I took the opportunity to convert these articles into a format suitable for publication on the Internet and these have now been placed online at our Centre’s website www.aaiil.org under Biographies. During the course another participant e-mailed me to provide him with details of the life of Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi. There is an excellent account of his life in Urdu written by Mr Nasir Ahmad, printed as a 7-page appendix in the book Muarif-ul-Haq, a collection of writings of the Maulana. I scanned those pages and sent them. It gives a feeling of both satisfaction and pride to be able to render this kind of assistance to our Centre.