muslim news no 10, may 2013 issue
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100 years of propagation of Islam in the UK A celebration in WokingTRANSCRIPT
May 2013
Issue 10
Mrs S. Malik wrote:
We are very sorry to inform
you about the passing away of
the father of Prof. Henry Abdil
Gaffar Espiritu, a board mem-
ber of the Philippines Jamaat.
The Senior Espiritu passed
away March 13, 2013 in Lyte,
Philippines after suffering a
heart attack. He was a Chris-
tian by faith but he strongly
supported Prof. Espiritu in his
Islamic Faith. Prof. Abdil Gaf-
far Espiritu was devoted to his
father and loved him very
much. For the last several
years his father had
been suffering from kidney
failure and Prof. Abdil Gaffar
Espiritu took exemplary care
of him. Please pray that Al-
mighty Allah have mercy on
Senior Espiritu and grant Prof.
Abdil Gaffar Espiritu and his
family the patience and
strength to bear this great
loss.
Pakistan
Hazrat Ameer, Amir Aziz and
Ahamdiyya Anjuman Isha‘at Islam Lahore 15 Stanley Avenue, Wembley, UK, HAO 4JQ
The Muslim News
Next Meeting
Celebration
100 years of Propagation of
Islam in the UK
Broadcasts
on
www.virtualmosque.co.uk
Friday service : 13:00
Dars : 14:00
Monthly Meetings
First Sunday of month : 15:00
others continue to do stirling
and great work under very dif-
ficult circumstances with con-
stant threats to their security.
Members are requested to pray
for their continued safety. If
Allah is with us no enemy can
harm us.
Old files of Al-Badr and Al -
Hakm, the Urdu newspapers
published by the Promised
Messiah from Qadian, have
been scanned, cleaned and up-
loaded onto the Centre’s web-
site. Copies have also been
printed at great cost for the
Central Library.
Paigham-i Sulah and Ruh-i
Is lam, two Urdu newspapers of
First Day
Friday May 3 , 13:00 exactly
at 15 Stanley Ave, Wembley
Second Day
Saturday May 4, 10:00am
at H G Wells Halls, Woking
come
and bring
your family
and friends
Maulana Yakub Khan (1st row, left) Hazrat Khwaja sahib
(centre), Mr Pickthall
Maulana Sadr-ud-Din delivering an Eid khutba
Maulana Aftab-ud-Din and Amir Faisal
Mrs Abdullah, an unsung heroine of the Woking Muslim Mission, and
behind her the Imam, Dr Abdullah
Maulana Tufail (right) with the Dalai Lama at an interfaith
conference in London
Third Day
Sunday May 5,11:00am
at 15 Stanley Ave,
Wembley HAO 4JQ
the Lahore Ahmadiyya Move-
ment, have also been scanned,
cleaned and placed online as
well as being printed in bound
book form for the library.
Marmaduke Pickthall, the
famous translator of the
Holy Quran into English: his
work with the Woking
Mis sion
(Also see picture with Lahore
Ahmadiyya Missionaries)
Pickthall and his association
with the Woking Muslim Mis-
sion is given in The Islamic Re-
view, February 1922, page 44, in
the section ‘Notes’. This is
quoted below.
‘The following lectures will be
delivered during the month of
February at the London Muslim
Prayer House, 111, Campden
Hill Road, Notting Hill Gate,
London W8, at 5.30 pm:
‘February 5. — “Soul in Woman,
and Islam,“ by Khwaja Kamal-
ud-Din.
‘February 12. — “Islam
and Socialism,” by
Khwaja Nazir Ahmad.
‘February 19. — “A Fallen Idol,”
by Muhammad Marmaduke
Pickthall.
‘February 26. — “Three Stages
of Human Mind,” by Muham-
mad Yakub Khan.’
The three other lecturers men-
tioned, apart from Mr Pickthall,
were prominent members of
the Lahore Ahmadiyya Move-
ment who also worked for the
Woking Muslim Mission. This
again shows the close associa-
tion of Pickthall with the Wok-
ing Mission.
“Neither are their judges to be
removed from their jobs nor
their monks from their monas-
teries.
“No one is to destroy a house of
their religion, to damage it, or to
carry anything from it to the
Muslims’ houses.
“Should anyone take any of
these, he would spoil God’s
covenant and disobey His
Prophet. Verily, they are my
allies and have my secure char-
ter against all that they hate.
“No one is to force them to
travel or to oblige them to fight.
“The Muslims are to fight for
them.
“If a female Christian is married
to a Muslim, it is not to take
place without her approval. She
is not to be prevented from vis-
iting her church to pray.
“Their churches are to be re-
spected. They are neither to be
prevented from repairing them
nor the sacredness of their
covenants.
“No one of the nation
(Muslims) is to disobey
the covenant till the Last Day
[the end of the world, Judgment
Day).”
It should be quite clear from
this that, far from being a
threat, Islam is actually the
guardian of the Christian pres-
ence in the Middle East.
These words of the Prophet
Mu hammad should be made
known to Muslims and non-
Muslims throughout the world.
This is the Lahore-Ahmadi
message as well to the world.
Pickthall’s speeches, lectures
and articles appeared regularly
in The Islamic Review from 1917
onwards.
What the Muslim Mission
aspired to
The Holy Prophet Muhammad’s
(s) letter to the Christians. The
Greek Orthodox monks living in
the monastery at the foot of
Mount Sinai have in their pos-
session many precious docu-
ments going back many centu-
ries.
Their library is one of the finest
in the world for ancient manu-
scripts. One of the most pre-
cious documents of all is the
copy of a letter narrated by
Prophet Muhammad to the
monks in the year 628. Its con-
tents might come as a surprise
to many, since in this precious
manuscript Muslims are ex-
horted to protect the Christians
living within their midst. The
words are so beautiful that we
repeat them in full here :
“This is a message from
Mu hammad ibn Abdullah, as a
covenant to those who adopt
Christianity, near and far, we
are with them.
“Verily I, the servants, the help-
ers, and my followers defend
them, because Christians are
my citizens; and by Allah! I hold
out against anything that dis-
pleases them.
• “No compulsion is to be on
them.
Islam means ‘I Shall Love All Mankind’