{"id":157492,"date":"2026-07-26T07:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=157492"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:27:27","slug":"267596-people-had-joined-the-ahmadiyya-muslim-community-during-the-past-year-from-all-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/07\/26\/267596-people-had-joined-the-ahmadiyya-muslim-community-during-the-past-year-from-all-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"267596 people had joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the past year from all around the world."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by I. Ahmad<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>60<sup>th<\/sup> Ahmadiyya International Convention &nbsp;U.K. concludes today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three day convention was inaugurated by Ahmadiyya Khalifa His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad on last Friday (24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;July 2026) <strong>at&nbsp;<\/strong>Hadeeqatul Mahdi, Alton, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;His Holiness hoisted the&nbsp;<em>Liwa-e-Ahmadiyyat<\/em>&nbsp;(Flag of Ahmadiyyat).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Holiness\u2019 inaugural address, the title of which was, walking upon the path of Taqwa (God-fearing) and explained in length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On 25 July 2026<\/em>, the second day of the Convention, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived at the Lajna (Ladies) marquee for his address. He delivered his address titled: Strengthening faith in the modern age, 19695 ladies participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday 25<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;July 2026, Ahmadiyya Khalifa in his main address of the second day of the convention highlighted the continuous progress of Islam Ahmadiyyat worldwide. He announced 267596 people had joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the past year from all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the highlights of the three-day Jalsa Salana (Convention) will be the pledge of allegiance, known as&nbsp;<em>Bai\u2019at<\/em>&nbsp;that takes place today&nbsp; Sunday (26 July) afternoon, where the participants pledged allegiance to Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad as the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph) of the Promised Messiah (<em>peace be upon him<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participants formed a human chain leading to the Khalifa as they repeated the words of the pledge in unison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmadi Muslims throughout the world are connected with MTA (Muslim TV Ahmadiyya International) and thus participle in this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: MTA International, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by I. Ahmad 60th Ahmadiyya International Convention &nbsp;U.K. concludes today. The three day convention was inaugurated by Ahmadiyya Khalifa His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad on last Friday (24th&nbsp;July 2026) at&nbsp;Hadeeqatul Mahdi, Alton, United Kingdom. &nbsp;His Holiness hoisted the&nbsp;Liwa-e-Ahmadiyyat&nbsp;(Flag of Ahmadiyyat). His Holiness\u2019 inaugural address, the title of which was, walking upon the path of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ahmadi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157493,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157492\/revisions\/157493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}