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

aaiiLahore@gmail.com

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’