Ahmadiyya Articles related to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its beliefs, including its founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), his Khalifas (Successors), and other personalities and topics.

The First Word: Aims and Origins of the Muslim Sunrise

One hundred years ago, Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (ra) (1872–1957) published the inaugural issue of the “Moslem Sunrise” from Detroit, Michigan (1). This article documents...

Islam & Black Lives Matter: Guidance of the Khalifa

Fall 2020 What is a Jama’at? What is a community? These questions have become increasingly pertinent as racial tensions that had long been simmering in the United States ignited...

The Bubonic Plague: Prophecies of the Promised Messiah (as)

COVID-19 garnered early comparisons to the Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed at least 20 million people globally, if not many more. Just a decade prior to that deadly flu, the...

Origins of the Glorious Fazl Mosque

This article was written at the occasion of the Centenary of the UK Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. As Ahmadi Muslims, we claim to be adherents of the most supreme of all teachings, a...

Defining the West: Historical Development of the Concept of the West

The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the directions north, east, south, and west. The basic definition of the West is that it is “where the sun sets.”...

When Will the Sun Rise from the West?

When Will the Sun Rise from the West?: Identifying the time of the Latter Days Many people feel pessimistic about where the world is headed: The Coronavirus, global climate...

Approaching the West

… Say: ‘To Allah belongs the East and the West. He guides whom He pleases to the right path’ (1). “For as the lightning comes out of the East, and shines even unto the...

Introduction to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

In the 19th century, Islam as a religion and Muslims as a nation were helpless. Muslim empires were crumbling all over the world. In the subcontinent of India, the Mughal Empire...

The Meaning of the Prophecy “the Sun Shall Rise from the West”

The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) received numerous prophecies, which he shared with his companions, concerning the future. Many of these revelations spoke of “the Latter Days,”...

Tours of the West by His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V (aba)

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as), stated: “The days are fast approaching when the sun of truth will rise from the West, and Europe will...