A glimpse into the rich history of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
8 August 1976: On this day, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IIIrh travelled from Washington, DC, to Toronto. Around 400 people gathered to welcome Huzoorrh. This was the first time any Khalifatul Masih had visited Canada. (Silsila Ahmadiyya, Part 3, p. 595)
9 August 1899: On this day, the Promised Messiahas published an announcement regarding the marriage proposal of Maulvi Muhammad Ali Sahib, who was then young, had recently attained his law degree, and was working on the English translation of Hazrat Ahmad’sas books. Huzooras took the pain of many personal issues of his helpers out of his care and love for the servants of faith. (Majmu‘ah-e-Ishtiharat [2019], Vol. 2, pp. 535-536)
9 August 1900: Lala Keshudas Sahib, revenue officer (tehsildar) of Batala, visited Qadian in 1899. He visited the Mubarak Mosque and had a sitting with the Promised Messiahas. The editor of Al Hakam, Hazrat Sheikh Yaqub Ali Irfanira took notes of what Huzooras said on this occasion, which were then published in Al Hakam, on this day.
For more details on this event, see “Coming from every distant track: Lala Keshudas, Tehsildar of Batala, visits Qadian” at alhakam.org (21 January 2022, pp. 19-20).
10 August 1897: On this day, the Promised Messiahas was in Batala for a court hearing at the court of Lt Col Montagu William Douglas, CSI, CIE. Huzooras reached the courtroom at around 8 am. In the aftermath of missionary Henry Martyn Clarke’s humiliation in the field of argument and logic during Jang-e-Muqaddas, this ludicrous accusation of attempted murder against the Promised Messiahas by him gained sensation and hype in the press. (Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat, Vol. 1, p. 625)
10 August 1945: On 6 and 9 August 1945, the USA callously dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. During his Friday sermon on this day, Hazrat Musleh-e-Maudra said:
“As a result of these happenings, I can foresee that in the future, wars will not reduce; rather, they will increase. […] Moreover, it is invalid and childish to think that atomic [power] will strengthen the hands of the big powers, and no one could attain military power against them. […] So, the need of the time is to reduce these lethal [weapons], instead of increasing them.”
For more details, see “The 6 & 9 August 1945 tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Ahmadiyya call for peace”, Al Hakam, 5 August 2022, Issue 229, p. 20.
11 August 1999: On the occasion of the solar eclipse on this day, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IVrh led the Kusuf prayer in London. (Silsila Ahmadiyya, Vol. 4, p. 900)
12 August 1988: During his Friday sermon on this day, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IVrh warned the opponents of Ahmadiyyat in general and General Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan in particular. Then on 17 August, this military dictator of Pakistan died in an air crash near Bahawalpur, Pakistan. (Silsila Ahmadiyya, Part 4, p. 848)
13 August 1961: The Mubarak Mosque in Montagne Blanche, Mauritius, was inaugurated on this day. It was a historic day for the local Jamaat for many reasons, one being that there was already a small mosque built some two decades back on this island, under the supervision of missionary Maulana Fazl Ilahi Bashir Sahib. But sadly, a strong typhoon caused extensive damage to this structure. The devout local Ahmadis planned to rebuild this house of God once again with their limited resources. This beautiful, eye-catching mosque was renovated mostly through rigorous and tireless waqar-e-amal by Jamaat members. (Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat, Vol. 21, pp. 379-380)
13 August 2010: During his Friday sermon on this day, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Vaa instructed all Ahmadis to pray for the Ahmadis of Pakistan and to pray that Allah may always keep us under His mercy and protect the Jamaat from all kinds of harm. Huzooraa said that in Pakistan, the leadership and people in power do not realise which direction they are moving. Huzooraa prayed that Allah the Almighty may grant more progress to Islam and Ahmadiyyat.
14 August 1921: On the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, Maulvi Mubarak Ali Sahib BA delivered a sermon in London on this day. The Moslem World, an Anglo-American journal on Islam, at that time published some extracts of the above-mentioned sermon in its issue of April 1922 under the title “A Sermon on Sacrifice”.
To read more about this event, see: “100 Years Ago… – Did Ahmadiyyat compromise Islam?” at alhakam.org (1 July 2022, pp. 12-13).
14 August 1923: On this day, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IIra composed and published an essay titled: بالشوویک علاقہ میں احمدیت کی تبلیغ (Propagation of Ahmadiyya in the Bolshevik Region). In the essay, Huzoorra mentioned the preaching efforts of Fateh Muhammad Sahib and Mian Muhammad Ameen Sahib.
To read more about this, see: “Pioneer Missionaries: Part 9 – Propagation of Islam Ahmadiyyat in Bolshevik Regions” At alhakam.org (5 May 2023, pp. 16-17).