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(L to R) Samina Ahmad, Hazrat Maulana Abdul Haque, Mrs Aziz

Next Meeting Sunday, 3rd February 2013 At 15:00 exactly

‫اِنَّا ِ ہ ٰلِلِ واِنَّا اَلِ ْی ِہ َرا ِجعُون‬

An early Sunday meeting of UK jamaat

Jamaat meeting October 2007

Join us to celebrate 100 years of Propagation of Islam in the UK Friday May 3, starting 1300 Dar us Salaam Wembley Sat May 4, starting 09:30 H G Wells Halls, Woking I give you this one thought to keep, I am with you still - I do not sleep.

Mrs Akhtar Jabeen Aziz, daughter of Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, died in England on 11th January 2013 at the age of more than 86 years. She was the Maulana’s eldest child from his second wife, Badr-un-Nisa, whom the Maulana married after his first wife died in the 1918/19 world-wide influenza epidemic.

Mrs Aziz was a retired secondary school teacher of English to immigrant children in England, first in the city of Southampton, 1966–1971, and then in the town of Slough, 1971– 1991. She had also acted as in-

I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am sunlight on ripened

February 2013, Issue 8

Even when disabled, she insisted on attending jamaat’s functions

Broadcasts On www.virtualmosque.co.uk Every Friday khutba at 12:30 Dars at 13:15 Sunday Meetings at 15:00 terpreter for the Police, Courts, Social Services and the Probation Services, in cases involving people from Pakistan and India, from the mid1960s till she reached 80 years of age.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Assalamu Alaikum.

grain, I am the gentle autumn rain When you awake in the morning's hush, I am the swift, uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

I share your joy, And your pain.

So, do not think of me as gone I am with you still - in each new dawn.

Br Erwan Hamdani from Jakata, Indonesia has sent the very sad news about the death of our learned and senior member of the Yogyakarta Ahmadiyya School, Br Mardi-

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

yono Djojosemardjo, retired Headmaster of the Ahmadiyya High School, Yogyakarta.

Br Mardiyono Djojosemardjo was born in Sidoarjo on 5 December 1924, and retired from serving the School in 2000 CE. He died on 25 January 2013.(The HOPE Bulletin) Assalaamu ‘Alaikum. We have just received the sad news of the passing away of Mrs Zohra Wahid, mother of Mr Abdul Zahid.

She was also the maternal aunt of Mr Mehboob Raza, President of AAII(L) of Fiji. Inna li-llahi wa inna ilai-hi rajiun. Mrs Zohra Wahid was sick over the last few years and expired at her home in Nadi, Fiji, at the age of 70+. She is survived by her son Abdul Zahid and her husband (master) Abdul Wahid.

Centenary Celebrations (see first page) of Hazrat Khawaja Kamal ud Din’s arrival in the UK and start of propagation of Islam in the West.

In 1912 Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din came to England in connection with pleading a court case before the Privy Council (the highest court of appeal for India at the time). After the conclusion of the case, he stayed on to establish a Muslim mission in England with the object of presenting the true picture of Islam and refuting the highly distorted image of Islam that was widely-prevalent in the West at the time. He thus abandoned his lucrative legal practice in India to serve Islam as a missionary.

A few years earlier, in 1889, a mosque along with a spacious residential house adjacent to it had been built in the town of

Woking, about 30 miles southwest of London, in the county of Surrey, by one Dr. G. W. Leitner.

The costs were largely met by financial help that Dr. Leitner received from Muslims in India,

pose, he had to go to court to get the status of this entire property established. The court set up a Trust, consisting of certain prominent Indian Muslims, to manage the mosque and its property. Without the initiative taken

by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, the mosque and the residential house would have become the private property of the Leitner family who were intending to sell the entire premises for use as a factory. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din then established the Woking Muslim Mission and Literary Trust at the mosque.

Work of the Woking Mission

particularly the lady Muslim ruler of the state of Bhopal and the leaders of the state of Hyderabad Deccan. Dr. Leitner had been Registrar at the University of Punjab in Lahore, and was intending to establish an Institute in Woking to be a centre in Europe for the study of Oriental languages, culture and history. He had built the mosque for the benefit of Muslim students who would come to study at his proposed Institute, and he also planned to build places of worship for other religions. However, Dr. Leitner died in 1899, and none of his plans came to fruition except that the mosque and the residential house were left behind.

When Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din was starting his Muslim mission in 1913 he learnt of the existence of this mosque. The mosque had only been used on a few occasions and was usually deserted and neglected. Khwaja Kamal-udDin, after visiting the mosque, succeeded in getting it opened for use as a mosque. For this pur-

The Woking mosque and mission were the centre of Islam in England from 1913 to the mid-1960s.

Although the mission was run by people connected with the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, it was supported by all other sections of the Muslims. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din regarded it as his main work to remove the deeplyentrentched misconceptions about Islam prevailing in the West and to refute the doctrines of the Christian church. To do such work in England, which was a staunchly Christian country at that time, and which ruled over Muslim lands including the country that the Khwaja came from, required the greatest courage and conviction. But the Khwaja had been inspired by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad with the firm belief that the truth of Islam, presented in its original purity, shall win over the hearts of the people of the West, despite all the deep prejudice and hatred against this noble faith.

(From www.wokingmuslim.org )