In 1835, Mirza Ghulam Ahmadaswas born in the unknown village of Qadian, India. In 1889, he founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. By the end of his life he had hundreds of thousands of followers. Today, his peaceful community numbers in the many millions, and grows at a remarkable rate each year. Its adherents hail from every faith, nation, and walk of life. Among his followers are Nobel Prize winners, United Nations Director-Generals, and celebrated authors, artists, and leaders of nations. They all claimed that by following Ahmad they achieved something no longer seen in the contemporary world — a genuine, two-way connection with our Creator; spiritual enlightenment in our age of darkness.
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Ahmad made a remarkable claim. He said that he was the long-awaited Messiah and Reformer foretold by Christianity, Islam and countless other religions. He said that as Islam was the universal religion, the Reformer to come in this age was to be a single man, born and raised in the all-embracing Muslim faith. But what of the first Messiah, Jesus? With Biblical, Quranic, and historical argumentation he proved that Jesus of Nazareth survived the crucifixion, fled East and died a natural death in India. Ahmad claimed that the old Jesus would never come back, and second coming of Jesus that Muslims and Christians alike await was a spiritual rebirth, rather than a physical descent from the skies. He claimed to be a Prophet for our time, a deputy to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, who was and always will be the greatest of all Prophets.
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Ahmad did not rest with claims alone, but proved them with ceaseless intellectual output and the testimony of heavenly signs. Thus was the long-awaited double eclipse in the month of Ramadan fulfilled in his lifetime. Thus did he call those who branded him a liar to prayer duels and emerge in humble victory. Thus did his prophecies foretell the Great War and countless other world events. But his truest proof lay in the spiritual revolution that he created among his followers. The connection that they forged with God by following Ahmad brought with it fresh inspiration and revelation. This contact with the Divine sustained the spiritual lives of his followers 125 years ago, and continues to do so today. Over half a million join each year — their stories of Divine Experience are numberless.
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Ahmad had no political ambitions. He shunned the world and lived a life of hardship and restraint. His community does not seek to conquer lands, but to conquer hearts. Its aim is to reconnect man with God, and to reconnect the hearts of humanity with each other. Its method is simple: to follow the true teachings of Islam, as revealed in the Holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. It does so under divine guidance, in the form of elected spiritual successorship known as Caliphate. Today we live under the fifth Caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, an internationally renowned ambassador of peace, and a beacon of spiritual guidance. He travels the world purveying the message of Islam Ahmadiyya, the True Islam. This Islam is far removed from the fanaticism of extremists, and is the path to spiritual, social, and international peace that our world so sorely needs.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established in the UK in 1913, having the honour of building London’s first mosque in 1926. Since its inception, it has been at the forefront of promoting an authentic, rational and compassionate vision of Islam among the British people. Always emphasising the need to be both obedient to God in our spiritual lives, and loyal to our nation in our civic lives, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK has come to be seen as a model for peaceful integration. While adding thousands of native Britons to its ranks, it has only served to promote inter-community harmony and religious cooperation.
In 1984, the Community was blessed with the residence of His Holiness Mirza Tahir Ahmadrh, the Fourth Caliph of the Promised Messiah. Leaving his native Pakistan due to increasing persecution of Ahmadi Muslims, he found a safe haven in the Fazl Mosque, Southfields. There, he led the worldwide community to ever-greater heights, strengthening international missions across the world, and establishing Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (MTA), the community’s pioneering satellite television channel. Since his demise, the Fifth Caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, may God strengthen his hand, has continued to lead the community into a new era of progress, all directed from his residence in South London. Indeed, there is no other community in recent decades that has been so blessed with Caliphate as has the UK community.
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