What’s New

Updated: 31 August

Updates at alahmadiyya.org

August 2023

Articles & Magazines:

• The Good News (2010–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, South Africa) [in searchable pdf format]:
  • 2019: February, July, August and September issues [Added: 1 to 3 Aug]
  • 2020: April, May and September issues [Added: 1 to 3 Aug]
• The Good News (2010–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, South Africa) [in text format]:
  • June 2021 issue in text format [Added: 7 Aug]
    • Justice – A Quranic Perspective by Ebrahim Mohamed
• The Light (UK) (1989 and 1996–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [in searchable pdf format]:
  • 2005: March issue [Added: 24 Aug]
  • 2006: October and December issues [Added: 24 Aug]
  • 2008: February, March, May, July, August and September issues [Added: 25 to 28 Aug]
  • 2010: January and February issues [Added: 17 Aug]
• The Light (UK) (1989 and 1996–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [in text format]:
  • March 1997 issue in text format: [Added: 21 Aug]
    • Eid-ul-Fitr Sermon: What Ramadan teaches us by Shahid Aziz (9 February 1997)
  • March 1998 issue in text format: [Added: 19 Aug]
    • Remembrance of Allah by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
    • Selected Verses from the Holy Quran
  • September 2005 issue in text format: [Added: 7 and 20 Aug]
    • News (Deaths):
      • Mrs Saleema Faruqui [Wife of Naseer Ahmad Faruqui] [21st July 2005 in Lahore, Pakistan]
      • Mr Fazil Ramazan [2nd August 2005 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan]
      • Mr Daoud Ali [in Canada]
    • 100 Years of Ahmadiyya Anjuman
    • Our Websites
    • Muslim Prayer Book with CD-ROM
    • An Appeal for your Support from Hazrat Ameer Prof. Dr. Abdul Karim Saeed to all Jamaats in the World — Building Infrastructure in India, Australia and Germany
    • Achievements of the Woking Muslim Mission (Speech at a public meeting on Saturday 23rd April 2005 at the New Haw Community Centre near Woking) by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • March 2006 issue in text format: [Added: 21 Aug]
    • Islam’s Teaching on Response to Abuse and Mockery (Show Patience under Provocation, disregard Abuse and Politely turn away from Abusers — Violence not Allowed) by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • September 2006 issue in text format: [Added: 17 Aug]
    • Obituary: Maulana Abdul Mannan Omar (Son of Maulana Nur-ud-Din) [with photograph]
    • Our Websites
  • October 2006 issue in text format: [Added: 24 and 25 Aug]
    • Women and Education by Habiba Anwar
    • Qadiani Jamaat Translations contradict their own Beliefs — But will they Notice it? by Dr. Zahid Aziz
    • ‘Virgins’ in Muslim Paradise — Misconceptions corrected by Dr. Zahid Aziz
    • The Muslim Prayer Book with CD-ROM
  • December 2006 issue in text format: [Added: 24 and 30 Aug]
    • Ramadan, an Exquisite Plan by Bushra Ahmed
    • Eid-ul-Fitr Sermon at Darus Salaam, London (24th October 2006) by Shahid Aziz
  • February 2007 issue in text format: [Added: 24 Aug]
    • Starting the New Year by Habiba Anwar
    • Can a Prophet come after Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)? — Qadiani Jamaat accepts Beliefs Rejected by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • June 2007 issue in text format: [Added: 16 and 17 Aug]
    • Retrograde Motion of Planets — And a Novel misinterpretation of the rising of the Sun from the West by Dr. Zahid Aziz
    • “Manifestation” of Ahmad — A Question answered by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • July 2007 issue in text format: [Added: 17 and 18 Aug]
    • 100th Death Anniversary Year of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
    • Virtual Mosque Website
    • Inter-European Lahore Ahmadiyya Conference in Berlin, May 2007 [with a photograph]
  • February 2008 issue in text format: [Added: 30 Aug]
    • Simplicity versus Bad Press — Review of ‘Islam, Peace and Tolerance’ by Bushra Ahmed
    • Qadiani Jamaat Beliefs (A Self-exposure) — Book ‘Kalimat-ul-Fasal’ (by Mirza Bashir Ahmad) placed Online by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • March 2008 issue in text format: [Added: 26 Aug]
    • Muslims and Shariah [Islamic Law] in the UK by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • May 2008 issue in text format: [Added: 26 Aug]
    • News: Mrs Atiyya Keeskamp [Visiting UK, 1–5 May 2008]
    • News: Death of Mian Farooq Ahmad Shaikh [21 March 2008 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan] by Mian Fakhr-ud-Din Ahmad [with photograph]
  • July 2008 issue in text format: [Added: 27 Aug]
    • Khilafat Resources List — Contradicts own Beliefs by Dr. Zahid Aziz
    • False Statement by a Maulana [Mufti Zubair Bayat, President of the Jamiat-ul-Ulama of the Natal Province] of South Africa by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • August 2008 issue in text format: [Added: 28 Aug]
    • How we accept Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s Teachings? by Dr. Zahid Aziz
  • September 2008 issue in text format: [Added: 25 Aug]
    • News from the Berlin Mosque and Mission by Muhammad Ali (Imam of the Berlin Mosque)
  • November 2009 issue in text format: [Added: 16 Aug]
    • Why I have not been able to perform the Hajj [Pilgrimage]? by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (Translation and Notes by Dr. Zahid Aziz)
  • January 2010 issue in text format: [Added: 17 Aug]
    • News (From Shahid Aziz)
    • Nature by Bushra Ahmed
  • February 2010 issue in text format: [Added: 17 Aug]
    • Islam and Care of the Old by Bushra Ahmed
  • February 2016 issue in text format: [Added: 21 Aug]
    • Hazrat Bilal (rta) by Shahid Aziz
  • November 2022 issue in text format: [Added: 31 Aug]
    • The Problem with Dawah Today by Mr. Iain Dixon
  • June 2023 issue in text format: [Added: 17 Aug]
    • Eid-ul-Adha Message 2023 by Iain Dixon
• The Light & Islamic Review (US) (1991–) (Official Magazine of the AAIIL(USA)):
  • March/April 1993 issue in text format: [Added: 18 Aug]
    • Book Review: Muhammad by Karen Armstrong (Reviewed by Col. Mahmud Shaukat, Imam, London Centre of AAIIL)
• The Muslim News (2012–2019) (Official Newsletter of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [in searchable pdf format]:
  • 2015: January, March, April, May and July issues [Added: 15 Aug]
  • 2016: April and August issues [Added: 16 Aug]
  • 2017: January, May and June issues [Added: 16 Aug]
• Bashshaar (Bringer of Glad Tidings) (2005–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Australia) [in searchable pdf format]:
  • 2006: January to April issue [Added: 23 Aug]
• An-Nur International (2012–) (Urdu Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [in pdf format]:
  • 2023: June issue [Added: 7 Aug]
• Paigham-e-Sulh (Pakistan) (1913–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore) [in pdf format]:
  • 2020: June issue [Added: 11 Aug]
• Paigham-e-Sulh (Pakistan) (1913–) (Official Magazine of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore) [in text format]:
  • 2020: June issue [Added: 12 and 22 Aug]
    • وفات حسرت آیات (والدہ طاہر صادق و ارجمند صادق)
    • درخواست دُعا
    • مومنانہ اخلاق روحانی و جسمانی ترقی کے ضامن
    • صلوٰ ۃ کی افادیت (ماہرین طب کی تحقیق میں ) انتخاب ازجسارت نذر رب

Books (English):

• The Name Ahmadiyya and its Necessity by Maulana Murtaza Khan [in text format] [Added: 30 Aug]

Books (Urdu):

• قادیانی احباب کے لئے ایک قابل غور مَوازنہ از مولانا محمد علی
  Qadiani Ahbab ke Liye ek Qabil-e-Ghaur Muazanah by Maulana Muhammad Ali [in pdf and text formats] [Added: 20 Aug]

Eid Sermons in English:

• Eid-ul-Adha: Taqwa (Righteousness) is the Essence of Eid (20/07/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 6 Aug]
• Eid-ul-Adha: Philosophy of Sacrifice (10/07/2022) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 6 Aug]
• Eid-ul-Adha: Eid-ul-Adha Message from Hazrat Ameer Prof. Dr. Abdul Karim Saeed [Read by Lord Shahid Aziz] (31/07/2020) (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 6 Aug]
• New feature added: The total number of sermons available on the ‘Eid Sermons’ archive page will now be automatically calculated and shown on the top of the page (‘Total sermon count’) [Added: 8 Aug]
• Eid-ul-Fitr: What Ramadan teaches us (09/02/1997) by Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 21 Aug]
• Eid-ul-Fitr: Sincerity required when we are Fasting in Ramadan (24/10/2006) by Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 30 Aug]

Friday Sermons (English):

• How to deal with those who disagree? (15/10/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 4 Aug]
• Why Muslims leave Islam? (Part 1) (04/08/2023) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 5 Aug]
• Story of Equal Justice for the Enslaved in the Quran (04/08/2023) by Dr. Zahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 5 Aug]
• Sharing the Word of God is the Way to Eminence (04/08/2023) by Imam Arif Rahman (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Trinidad & Tobago) [Added: 5 Aug]
• Eid Milad-un-Nabi (29/10/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 7 Aug]
• Islam and Prejudice (19/11/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 7 Aug]
• Treasures of Al-Fatihah (28/07/2023) by Imam Iqubal Hydal (Iere Village Mosque, Trinidad & Tobago) [Added: 7 Aug]
• Good Character (28/07/2023) by Wahid Hosein (Wajidali Memorial Mosque, Trinidad) [Added: 7 Aug]
• Muslims and the First World War (World War I / WW1) (12/11/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 8 Aug]
• Nature’s Rights (26/11/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 8 Aug]
• Messengers sent to all Peoples (09/06/2023) by Shafiat Shorab (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Trinidad & Tobago) [Added: 8 Aug]
• Our Goal in Life (14/07/2023) by Shafiat Shorab (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Trinidad & Tobago) [Added: 8 Aug]
• The Spiritual Miracle of the First Revelation of the Holy Quran (Iqra)  (09/06/2017) by Imam Arif Rahman (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Trinidad & Tobago) — Text of the sermon added [Added: 8 Aug]
• New feature added: The total number of sermons available on the ‘Friday Sermons’ archive page will now be automatically calculated and shown on the top of the page (‘Total sermon count’) [Added: 8 Aug]
• Celebrating Christmas (24/12/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 9 Aug]
• Addiction (31/12/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 9 Aug]
• Science and Religion — Perspective on the Origin of the Universe (07/07/2023) by Imam Iqubal Hydal (Iere Village Mosque, Trinidad & Tobago) [Added: 9 Aug]
• Islamic and Western Law (10/12/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 10 Aug]
• Coronavirus and TB (Tuberculosis) (17/12/2021) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 10 Aug]
• Why Muslims leave Islam? (Part 2) — Conflict between Islam and Science (11/08/2023) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 11 Aug]
• The Holy Quran’s use of Women as Symbols of the Moral Condition of Believers (11/08/2023) by Ebrahim Mohamed (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, South Africa) [Added: 11 Aug]
• Follow the Example of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (11/08/2023) by Shafiat Shorab (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Trinidad & Tobago) [Added: 13 Aug]
• Life (04/08/2017) by Imam Arif Rahman (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, Trinidad & Tobago) — Text of the sermon added [Added: 14 Aug]
• Disappointments felt by Prophets before Allah’s Promise is Fulfilled (11/08/2023) by Dr. Zahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 18 Aug]
• This World, as it would be in the Future, in the Quran (Part 1) (18/08/2023) by Dr. Zahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 18 Aug]
• Burning Churches (18/08/2023) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 18 Aug]
• Why Muslims leave Islam? (Part 3) — Are there Contractions in the Holy Quran? (25/08/2023) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 25 Aug]
• This World, as it would be in the Future, in the Quran (Part 2) (25/08/2023) by Dr. Zahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) [Added: 25 Aug]
• Why Muslims leave Islam? (Part 1) (04/08/2023) by Lord Shahid Aziz (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore, UK) — Text of the sermon added [Added: 31 Aug]

Audio (Friday Sermons in Urdu):

• غور و فکر — Ghaur-o-Fikr (11/08/2023) by Anwar Omar [in Urdu] [Added: 13 Aug]
• علم لدنی — Ilm-e-Ladunni (25/08/2023) by Anwar Omar [in Urdu] [Added: 25 Aug]

Miscellaneous:

• The Holy Quran Search Engine — Based on the translations of Maulana Muhammad Ali, Maulana Ghulam Hassan Khan Niazi of Peshawar and Maulana Sadr-ud-Din:
  • The text of the English translation (1917 / 1st Edition) by Maulana Muhammad Ali is now being added to the database (currently, Chapters 1 to 11 are available in the database and more verses will be added regularly with the aim to complete the project over the next few weeks, In-sha-Allah). This project will enable a comparison of the text of the 1917 edition with the 1951 and 2010 editions. It will also assist researchers in establishing the influence of the Maulana’s work on the English translations undertaken by other Muslims translators that followed this 1917 Edition [Added: 10 Jul to 3 Aug]
  • Cross marks will now appear when you type into the ‘Chapter number’, ‘Start verse’, ‘End verse’ or ‘Search term(s)’ input fields. If you click on the cross mark (which appear on the right-hand side the input field) it will clear the entry in the input field. [Added: 14 Aug]
  • The ‘copy text’ feature is now switched on by default and you will see the ‘copy text’ icon () next to the search results [Added: 30 Aug]
  • ‘Display all chapters’ feature added: If you wish to display the entire Holy Quran on one page, please select the ‘Display all chapters’ option. This can be useful to use your browser’s ‘find in page’ feature (CTRL + F / CMD + F) to search through the Holy Quran. [Added: 3 Aug; Announced on 30 Aug]

Multimedia:

• Photograph: Maulana Abdul Mannan Omar — A scholar of Islam and the son of Maulana Nur-ud-Din [Added: 17 Aug]
• Events of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam page developed to archive event photographs [Added: 18 Aug]
• Photograph: Mian Farooq Ahmad Shaikh — General Secretary of Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-e-Islam Lahore [Added: 26 Aug]

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