{"id":64696,"date":"2017-03-29T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64696"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:11:34","slug":"ahmadiyya-founders-day-celebration-in-colombo-a-sign-of-religious-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/29\/ahmadiyya-founders-day-celebration-in-colombo-a-sign-of-religious-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadiyya Founder\u2019s Day Celebration in Colombo \u2013 A sign of Religious Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">by A. Abdul Aziz.<\/span><\/i><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u>AHMADIYYA\u00a0 MUSLIM\u00a0 JAMA\u2019AT &#8211; SRI LANKA<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">In my journey to serve the humanity with you all, a day will come, I will join with you to say prayer in this Mosque &#8211; Mr. Siriyanandha of Siriyanandha Foundation \u00a0remarks.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Ahmadiyya Founder\u2019s Day celebration was held in Colombo recently (26 March, 2017) at Baithul Hamd premises with the participation of members of other faiths. Members from non-ahmadi Muslims, Buddhism and Christianity attended the event which was organized by Colombo Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The event started with the Holy Qur\u2019an recitation followed by Urdu Nazm (poem), composed by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Promised Messiah (a.s.) on the Existence of God and his intense connection with Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Colombo-Event-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Colombo-Event-1.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Colombo-Event-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">In his address, National President Mr. A.H. Nasir Ahmad highlighted the advent of Promised Messiah in an era when the Christianity to dominate Islam in the Indian sub- continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Chief Missionary A.B. Musthaq Ahmad introducing Ahmadiyya Community and stressed the importance of accepting it, based on the teachings of Holy Prophet of Islam Muhammad (PBUH). He also quoted the address of Ahmadiyya Supreme Head His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad in Japan during his last visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Mr. Siriyanandha of Siriyanandaha Foundation and Chief Officer of Public Library Colombo in his address recalled the launching of Holy Qur\u2019an Sinhala Translation in 2015 and said this day this Holy Book being read out by Rev. Buddhist Monks and others thus creates religious harmony and making understand to others what Islam teaches. \u00a0<\/span><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">In my journey to serve the humanity with you all, a day will come, I will join with you to say prayer in this Mosque, he added.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">Fr. Priyantha and a non-ahmadi Muslim also addressed the event in which Government officials also attended. Mr. Priyantha was gifted the copy of Holy Qur\u2019an Sinhala Translation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\">Large number of Ahmadi men women and children attended the event that concludes with silent prayer. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by A. Abdul Aziz.\u00a0AHMADIYYA\u00a0 MUSLIM\u00a0 JAMA\u2019AT &#8211; SRI LANKA \u00a0In my journey to serve the humanity with you all, a day will come, I will join with you to say prayer in this Mosque &#8211; Mr. Siriyanandha of Siriyanandha Foundation \u00a0remarks. The Ahmadiyya Founder\u2019s Day celebration was held in Colombo recently (26 March, 2017) at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64696","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=64696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}