Muslim News No 10, May 2013 issue

May 2013 Issue 10

The Muslim News

Maulana Yakub Khan (1st row, left) Hazrat Khwaja sahib (centre), Mr Pickthall

Maulana Sadr-ud-Din delivering an Eid khutba

Mrs S. Malik wrote:

Maulana Aftabud-Din and Amir Faisal

Mrs Abdullah, an unsung heroine of the Woking Muslim Mission, and behind her the Imam, Dr Abdullah

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We are very sorry to inform you about the passing away of the father of Prof. Henry Abdil Gaffar Espiritu, a board member of the Philippines Jamaat.

The Senior Espiritu passed away March 13, 2013 in Lyte, Philippines after suffering a heart attack. He was a Christian by faith but he strongly supported Prof. Espiritu in his Islamic Faith. Prof. Abdil Gaffar Espiritu was devoted to his father and loved him very much. For the last several years his father had been suffering from kidney failure and Prof. Abdil Gaffar Espiritu took exemplary care of him. Please pray that Almighty Allah have mercy on Senior Espiritu and grant Prof.

Abdil Gaffar Espiritu and his family the patience and strength to bear this great loss.

Maulana Tufail (right) with the Dalai Lama at an interfaith conference in London

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100 years of Propagation of

Friday service : 13:00

Islam in the UK

Dars : 14:00 Monthly Meetings

First Day

First Sunday of month : 15:00

Friday May 3 , 13:00 exactly at 15 Stanley Ave, Wembley

Second Day Saturday May 4, 10:00am at H G Wells Halls, Woking

Third Day Sunday May 5,11:00am at 15 Stanley Ave, Wembley HAO 4JQ

come and bring

Pakistan

your family

Hazrat Ameer, Amir Aziz and

and friends

others continue to do stirling and great work under very difficult circumstances with constant threats to their security.

Members are requested to pray for their continued safety. If Allah is with us no enemy can harm us.

Old files of Al-Badr and Al Hakm, the Urdu newspapers published by the Promised Messiah from Qadian, have been scanned, cleaned and uploaded onto the Centre’s website. Copies have also been printed at great cost for the Central Library.

Paigham-i Sulah and Ruh-i Islam, two Urdu newspapers of

Ahamdiyya Anjuman Isha‘at Islam Lahore 15 Stanley Avenue, Wembley, UK, HAO 4JQ aaiiLahore@gmail.com

the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, have also been scanned, cleaned and placed online as well as being printed in bound book form for the library.

Marmaduke Pickthall, the famous translator of the Holy Quran into English: his work with the Woking Mission (Also see picture with Lahore Ahmadiyya Missionaries) Pickthall and his association with the Woking Muslim Mission is given in The Islamic Review, February 1922, page 44, in the section ‘Notes’. This is quoted below.

‘The following lectures will be delivered during the month of February at the London Muslim Prayer House, 111, Campden Hill Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W8, at 5.30 pm: ‘February 5. — “Soul in Woman, and Islam,“ by Khwaja Kamalud-Din. ‘February 12. — “Islam and Socialism,” by Khwaja Nazir Ahmad.

Pickthall’s speeches, lectures and articles appeared regularly in The Islamic Review from 1917 onwards.

“Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries.

What the Muslim Mission aspired to

“No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims’ houses.

The Holy Prophet Muhammad’s (s) letter to the Christians. The Greek Orthodox monks living in the monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai have in their possession many precious documents going back many centuries.

Their library is one of the finest in the world for ancient manuscripts. One of the most precious documents of all is the copy of a letter narrated by Prophet Muhammad to the monks in the year 628. Its contents might come as a surprise to many, since in this precious manuscript Muslims are exhorted to protect the Christians living within their midst. The words are so beautiful that we repeat them in full here :

“Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God’s covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate.

“No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight.

“The Muslims are to fight for them.

“If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray.

“Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants.

Islam means ‘I Shall Love All Mankind’

‘February 19. — “A Fallen Idol,”

by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall.

‘February 26. — “Three Stages of Human Mind,” by Muhammad Yakub Khan.’

The three other lecturers mentioned, apart from Mr Pickthall, were prominent members of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement who also worked for the Woking Muslim Mission. This again shows the close association of Pickthall with the Woking Mission.

“This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them.

“Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them.

• “No compulsion is to be on them.

“No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day [the end of the world, Judgment Day).”

It should be quite clear from this that, far from being a threat, Islam is actually the guardian of the Christian presence in the Middle East.

These words of the Prophet Muhammad should be made known to Muslims and nonMuslims throughout the world.

This is the Lahore-Ahmadi message as well to the world.