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[Live Prayers] Friday Khutba – Facing the Truth

VirtualMosque — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:02:35 +0000

We will be broadcasting our Friday prayers live from the Wembley Mosque in the UK today.

The programme will be broadcast at 1.00pm BST.

Programme*:
13:00 First Azan
Individual prayers

13:15 Second Azan
Khutba
Second Arabic khutba

13:45 Salaat
Dars
14:00 End of programme

To watch our live prayers and speech and be a part of the virtual mosque click on the link below.

Live Prayers
*All times are approximate.

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Khutba from Pakistan

VirtualMosque — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:09:08 +0000

You can follow the live khutba broadcast from our Pakistan Mosque here, from 08.30am GMT.

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[Video] Divorce

VirtualMosque — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:01:11 +0000

A senior British judge of the Family Court has recently commented to say that a high divorce rate is putting society under pressure and it is to be discouraged. Apart from the parties involved it puts their families, especially their children, under great stress. His conclusion is that divorce should be discouraged. This exactly what the Holy Quran has said that although divorce is allowed it is disapproved.

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[Video] Use of Wealth

VirtualMosque — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:30:38 +0000

The Promised Messiah states in this extract that compassion and sympathy for Allah’s creatures can only be a part of a Muslim’s faith. This can only be attained by sacrificing one’s possessions to help others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzOdjkhaHuU

[Video] Muslims, Jews and Christians

VirtualMosque — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:53:36 +0000

The Holy Quran says says: “O you who believe, take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends of each other.” (5:51)

Our detractors say this shows that the Holy Quran commands us to discriminate against them. Even if we look at recent events they show the truth of this verse. The US army had admitted that parts of its manual are insulting to Muslims and Islam and such text will be removed. Are there any anti-Jewish passages in the US army manual? A survey in France has shown that Muslims are the most discriminated against and disadvantaged section of society. This is how Islam and Muslims are treated in two countries which pride themselves on being secular and separating religion and the state. We wonder what the state of Muslims sections is in those European countries which are officially Christian or Israel where Judaism is the state religion.

Anti-Ahmedi laws: Police act as worship place ‘looks like a mosque’

VirtualMosque — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:24:06 +0000

Policemen scratched out Quranic verses written on the walls of an Ahmedi place of worship and ordered them to cover up short minarets at the entrance as they made the place look like a mosque, The Express Tribune has learnt.

After receiving a complaint about the place of worship in Sultanpura, Kachhupura, a large contingent of Misri Shah police visited it on Wednesday and told the Ahmedis they had a day to make the place look less like a mosque, failing which a case would be registered against them under the ‘Anti-lslamic Activities of Qadiani Group, Lahori Group and Ahmadis (Prohibition and Punishment) Ordinance’ of 1984.

The policemen etched out the verses at the main gate and entrance to the main hall. They were about to tear down the minarets, about five feet high, at the main gate too, but local Ahmedis convinced them to give them a day to cover them as demolishing them would have damaged the whole structure.

An Ahmedi familiar with the matter said that for several days, “irrelevant people” had been instigating non-Ahmedis in the area to complain about the place of worship. He said that they had applied to the local police for the registration of an FIR. He said that the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) concerned had met both sides on Tuesday and they had reached a compromise whereby no case would be registered provided the verses and minarets were removed.
He said that the worship house had been open since 1960 in the same form.

He said there were around 35 Ahmedi families in the area and they had offered no resistance to the police action.
He said that the police arrived at the place on Wednesday, cordoned it off and removed the verses by scratching them off the walls. He said that they had told the police that they would cover up the minarets using tiles to hide their shape.
On Thursday, they told the police they would try to cover the minarets with iron sheeting. Investigation Officer Khalid said that they had pledged to do so overnight.

Misri Shah Station Houser Officer (SHO) Mudassarullah Khan told The Express Tribune that the matter had been resolved amicably. He said no FIR had been registered and there had been no protest by anyone. He said the verses had been removed with the consent of both parties.

The SHO identified the complainants as Rana Muhammad Tufail and Advocate M Badar Alim Sheikh. He said that they had sought a case under Sections 295-B and 298-C of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The complainants, who are residents of Ravi Road, about 15 kilometres from the place of worship, said that the building had the Kalma Tayyeba, names of Allah and prayer verses written at the entrance as well as minarets. “They are non-Muslims and should be tried under the law for depicting themselves as Muslims,” read the complaint.

According to 295-B, “whoever wilfully defiles, damages or desecrates a copy of the Holy Quran or of an extract therefrom or uses it in any derogatory manner or for any unlawful purpose shall be punishable with imprisonment for life.”
According to 298-C, “any person of the Qadiani Group or the Lahori Group (who call themselves ‘Ahmedis’ or by any other name), who directly or indirectly, poses as a Muslim, or calls, or refers to, his faith as Islam, or preaches or propagates his faith, or invites others to accept his faith, by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representations, or in any manner whatsoever outrages the religious feelings of Muslims shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.”

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[Video] Allah is the only appropriate name for the Divine Being

VirtualMosque — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:37:28 +0000

Before Islam every nation or tribe moulded the Divine Being in accordance with their culture or circumstances as if God belonged to them. Essentially the Divine Being was like them but with super-human qualities. However, ‘He’ had the same needs as humans. That is why the name used for the Divine Being had a masculine and feminine form, singular and plural forms etc. Allah is the only personal name of the Divine Being which is free of such restrictions.

It is true that the Holy Quran also uses ‘He’ to refer to the Divine Being but this has to be seen in the context of what the personal name Allah stands for – He is unique in His Being. The use of the masculine pronoun simply shows the limitations of linguistically trying to express a concept beyond our comprehension.

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Extremism greater threat than terrorism

VirtualMosque — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:06:50 +0000

In February 2012, a leading Pakistani research institute published a report stating that the problem of religious extremism in Pakistan poses a greater threat to the country than does terrorism and examining a series of extremist incidents from September 2010 to September 2011.

The 54-page report, titled “Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict Trends in Pakistan 2010-2011,” was published by the Jinnah Institute, a non-governmental organization based in Islamabad.
Marking the release of the report, Jinnah Institute Executive Director Ejaz Haider said: “Extremism is a greater menace in terms of a state’s ability to deal with it, rather than terrorism, and this fact enhances the importance of studying extremism in Pakistan.”

For excerpts from the chapter in the report titled “Conflict Trends: Presenting the Data,” written by Jinna Institute deputy director Salman Zaidi click on the link below.

Source: Memri.org

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[Q&A] If Jihad always meant struggle

VirtualMosque — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:42:26 +0000

If jihad has always meant to struggle and Muslim scholars have always said this in what way did Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad carry out a reform?

The point to remember is that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad carried out a great number of reforms and the clarification of the concept of jihad was only one of them. For example, when Hazrat Mirza sahib appeared Muslims had lost all hope and blamed Islam for their backwardness. It was Hazrat Mirza sahib great achievement that he infused in their hearts the confidence the Islam shall prevail though it will be by force its arguments and not by force of arms. So much so that Hazrat Khwaja Kamal ud Din came to the UK just after the First World War and set up a mission to propagate Islam in London. Our Sunni friends laughed at him and called him mad for dreaming that he could get the British who ruled most of the earth at the time to embrace Islam.

The question fails to distinguish between what the jihad meant and what Muslims believed it meant. Although everyone agreed that according to the Arabic lexicon jihad meant to struggle Muslims generally believed that when the Holy Quran told Muslims to engage in jihad, for example “Strive for God a true striving (jihad).” (22:78), it meant a bloody struggle. Muslims even believed that to find a non-Muslim and force him to become a Muslim was jihad!

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad explained that it is not jihad to force people to embrace Islam because Islam says there is no compulsion in religion. He further explained that Islam allows fighting because it is not a pacifist religion but only under certain conditions. Such as if religious liberty is prohibited. He established that jihad can never be abolished because it is a duty of every Muslim but that jihad with the sword can come to an end when conditions for it do not exist. He taught that in this age to engage in jihad means to do our utmost to make ourselves into model humans and dedicate ourselves to propagation of Islam and taking man near to Allah.

It is one thing to say that it is written in books that jihad means to struggle and a different matter to create an organization which has members who give up glowing worldly careers to work for propagation of Islam. Just look at the lives of the elders of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement and you will see this.

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[Video] Beliefs of a Mujaddid

VirtualMosque — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:37:50 +0000

Many members or ex-members of the Qadiani jamaat have recently claimed to be mujaddids. The list includes people in Canada, Germany, Scotland, Mauritius and Pakistan. However, the question is whether someone who has held totally wrong beliefs about the fundamental teachings of Islam can be mujaddid or a reformer. These gentlemen believed that prophethood continues, that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet, that all those who do not take the baiat and join the Qadiani jamaat are kafirs, that Mian Mahmud Ahmad sahib who coined these beliefs was the great reformer prophecied by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. How can people whose own beliefs about fundamentals of Islam reform others?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEaTGpxAsI