Muslim Community Looks Back at 125 Years of Changing the World Today marks the 125th anniversary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

1. Today marks the
125th anniversary of
the Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community

2. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad of Qadian –
The Promised
Messiah and Imam
Mahdi

3. Today, 23 March 2014, marks the 125th
anniversary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community – a global Muslim community
that has evolved from very humble
beginnings into one of the most dynamic
social, humanitarian and spiritual
movements in the world today.

4. The community was
established in 1889 in
Qadian, a modest Indian
village, by the prophet Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.

5. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
claimed to be the awaited Messiah
whose advent was foretold in the
Muslim, Christian and Jewish
traditions. He set out to revive the
central Islamic message of peace
and tolerance in order to address
the root causes behind war,
oppression and inequality.

6. Commenting upon the purpose of his
advent, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
said:
”My desire, my wish and my
objective is serving humanity. It is
my job, my faith, my inspiration and
my way.”

7. Today the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community remains united under the
leadership of Hazrat Mirza Masroor
Ahmad, the Fifth Successor (Khalifa
or Caliph) to the Founder of the
Community, who resides in south-
west London.

8. The Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community is the only Muslim
sect today operating under the
Islamic system of Khilafat,
which has been in
establishment since 1908.

9. From its humble beginnings, the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
has grown into the largest
organised Muslim community in
the world with tens of millions of
followers spread across 204
countries.

10. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Fifth Khalifa (Successor) of the Promised Messiah

11. Under the leadership of Hazrat
Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the
Community has established itself
as one of today’s leading social
and humanitarian movements
having established hundreds of
schools, hospitals and charitable
projects in under-developed parts
of the world.

12. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad
said:
“The Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community is a peace-loving
community that acts entirely in
accordance with the true
teachings of Islam. It is a
community that not only
promotes peace but whose every
act and activity is conducted in
an entirely peaceful manner.”

13. To mark the occasion, Hazrat
Mirza Masroor Ahmad will give
a special message to members of
the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community which will be
broadcast on MTA International
later today.

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Presented by:
Muzaffer A.Tahir