The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Today the AMC is thought to be the world's largest organised Muslim community with more than 100 million members spread across established missions in 207 countries. The AMC is a non-political organisation that focuses on the spiritual and moral reformation of its members and the propagation of Islam's true peaceful and pluralistic teachings. In pursuit of this goal, the AMC engages its members in social, charitable and interfaith initiatives across the globe. It also emplys tens of thousands of life devotees across the world who work in established AMC missions, hospitals and schools. The AMC considers itself a driving force for positive change within the Muslim community. Some of the initiatives of the AMC are as follows:
- Established what are today's the world's largest Muslim woman's and Muslim youth associations, founded in 1922 and 1938 respectively.
- Launched the world's first Islamic satellite television channel in 1994, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya, which today enjoys the widest coverage across all Islamic channels.
- Translated the full Qur'an into 74 languages, including Braille, and partially into more than 120 languages.
- Build thousands of Mosques across the world. These include the largest Mosques in the UK, Scandinavia, Canada, Albania, Uganda, Benin, Australia, and the South Pacific. It also maintains the oldest Islamic community in the USA and built the first Mosque to be erected in Spain for 600 years. History
From its humble beginning in the remote Indian village of Qadian, the AMC was established as an Islamic reformist movement in1889. The community was founded by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be upon him), who claimed to be the chosen Imam (Imam Mahdi) and the Messiah awaited by followers of the world's great monotheistic religions. Among his key teachings were peace, human dignity and universal respect. Since the death of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in 1908, the AMC has been headed by five visionary Caliphs (Khulafa al-Masih, meaning representatives of the Messiah) in what currently stands as the longest standing and largest Caliphate in the world. The present caliph is Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad who resides close to London's oldest Mosque, Masjid Fazl. Today, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad travels the world promoting peace and advising heads of state and leading global thinker on the path to absolute justice. For more information about the present Caliph, click here.
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