Women & Islam: The rise and rise of the convert

Record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam, yet many are reporting a lack of help as they get used to their new religion, according to several surveys.

EU tries to block film exposing abuse of Afghan women

A row over a documentary on injustices suffered by Afghan women suggests little has changed for them in the 10 years since the U.S-led invasion of Afghanistan and the promise to deliver freedom has remained just that — a promise.

[Video] Introduction to the Lahore Ahmadiyyah Movement

Dr Zahid Aziz in a brief talk explains the challenges religions in general faced at the time of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s advent, especially Islam.

Half-Arab half-Jewish British woman’s Gaza experience

Reya El-Salahi from Oxford, who has a Muslim Arab father and a Jewish mother, was invited into a stranger’s home in Gaza where a mother told her how she wanted peace but her son wanted to grow up to be a fighter.

Hint of Ahmadi ties gets hakeem ‘banished’

For some bigots, putting up a portrait of a man vaguely associated with the founder of the Ahmadi sect is enough to deserve being ‘punished’ with exile from the district and a ban on your business.

Eid Mubarak

Will computers make extinct the last of Islam’s proud and honourable calligraphers?

Dr Jamal Naja meets me in a coffee shop just down the road from his home in Alamuddin Street, a quiet almost mischievous face, greying hair, and he lays — with great care — a black packet…

[Video] Seeking nearness to Allah Part Three

In the second khutba Hazrat Amir discussed the things you should do to achieve nearness to Allah.

In this third and final khutba of this series Hazrat Amir discusses the “don’ts” for a Muslim. That is the things a Muslim must…

[Video] Seeking nearness to Allah … Guidelines in the Quran

Hazrat Ameer recites Chapter 16, verses 89 and 90 of the Holy Quran, and deals with ‘Seeking nearness to Allah … Guidelines in the Quran’.

[Video] Asking for help from the dead

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad instructs his jamaat to seek the company of the living righteous to strengthen their faith. He also denigrate those who pray to the dead asking them to intercede with Allah on their behalf. If they want to ask anyone to pray for them it…