{"id":92025,"date":"2019-08-07T15:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92025"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:31:18","slug":"largest-islamic-convention-in-u-k-concludes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/07\/largest-islamic-convention-in-u-k-concludes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Islamic Convention in U.K. concludes."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By A. Abdul Aziz,\u00a0Press Secretary,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;The 53<sup>rd<\/sup> Jalsa Salana (Annual\nConvention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded\non Sunday 04 August 2019 with faith inspiring addresses of his five speeches.\nby the&nbsp;World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa\n(Caliph), His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Convention <\/strong><strong>began<\/strong><strong> on Friday with the traditional Friday Sermon\nand the first session started with raising of the black and white flag of the\nAhmadiyya Muslim Community alongside the Union Flag. On Saturday (the second\nday of the event), the Caliph conducted proceedings from the ladies marquee\nwhere 15,000 Muslim women witnessed.&nbsp; His Holiness awarded prizes to women\nfor academic achievements and delivered a speech highlighting the solution for\npeaceful married life based on the rights and empowerment Islam affords them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More than 39,000 people from number of countries\nattended this three day Convention ( Jalsa Salana), which took place at\nHadeeqatul Mahdi in Alton, Hampshire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Apart from the thousands of Ahmadi Muslims\nwho participated, many non-Ahmadi and non-Muslim guests also\nattended.&nbsp;&nbsp;The entire event was also broadcast live on&nbsp;<em>MTA\nInternational&nbsp;<\/em>and streamed online.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;One of the highlights of the three-day\nConvention was the pledge of allegiance, known as&nbsp;<em>Bai\u2019at<\/em>&nbsp;that\ntook place on Sunday afternoon, {last day of the event} where the participants\npledged allegiance to Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad as the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph)\nof the Promised Messiah \u2013 Hazrat Mirza Ghlam Ahmad(<em>peace be upon him<\/em>).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;The participants formed a human chain\nleading to the Khalifa as they repeated the words of the pledge in unison.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Prior to the ceremony, His Holiness\nannounced that 668520 people had joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during\nthe past year representing 120 countries around the world. He also announced\nthat the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was now established in 213 countries. The\nevent concluded with silent prayer led by His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor\nAhmad.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By A. Abdul Aziz,\u00a0Press Secretary,\u00a0 &nbsp;The 53rd Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 04 August 2019 with faith inspiring addresses of his five speeches. by the&nbsp;World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad.&nbsp; The Convention began on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92025","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=92025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}