Ahmadiyya in Switzerland
The Ahmadiyya in Switzerland is the national section of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ), a branch of the Ahmadiyya faith community founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in India in 1889 as an Islamic movement .
history
Its activity in Switzerland began on October 13, 1946, when three AMJ missionaries, Sheikh Nasir Ahmad , Abdul Latif and Ghulam Ahmad Baschir, arrived in Zurich . They originally planned to set up an Islamic mission in Germany, but entry permits to Germany could hardly be obtained in the first post-war years. Therefore, a little later, Abdul Latif and Ghulam Ahmad Baschir traveled on to the Netherlands, while Sheikh Nasir Ahmad stayed in Switzerland.
In 1954 the Ahmadiyya movement in Switzerland published a newly translated bilingual Arabic-German edition of the Koran , and in 1959 an improved edition which has been reprinted several times since then. From October 1949 to 2000 the magazine "Der Islam" was published, which was founded by the mission leader Sheikh Nasir Ahmad and was published until June 1962 and from the beginning of 1982 until his death in 2000.
On June 22, 1963 in Zurich , the Mahmood Mosque opened in 2005 in the municipality of Wigoltingen ( canton Thurgau belonging) village Bonau the Nuur Mosque.
Missionaries of the Ahmadiyya Congregation Switzerland
| Murrabi | Period | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheikh Nasir Ahmad | 1946 to 1962 |
| 2 | Mushtaq Ahmad Bajwa | June 1962 - January 1975 |
| 3 | Me Masud Ahmad | February 1975 - June 1976 |
| 4th | Naseem Ahmad Mahdi | April 1977 - November 1983 |
| 5 | Mansur Ahmad Khan | November 1983 - November 1984 |
| 6th | Masud Ahmad Jehlmi | December 1984 - August 1990 |
| 7th | Basharat Ahmad Mahmud | August 1990 - January 1997 |
| 8th | Sadaqat Ahmad | September 2001- January 2016 |
| 9 | Nabeel Ahmed | Active since March 2013 |
| 10 | Abdul Wahab Tayyab | Active since 2015 |
| 11 | Irfan Ahmed Thaker | Active since 2016 |
| 12 | Abdul Basit Tariq | March 2016 - February 2017 |
| 13 | Muhammad A. Rashid | Active since February 2017 |
| 14th | Mohammad Wafa | Active since May 2017 |
organization
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Switzerland has around 850 members in 14 Jamaats (local communities): Aarau , Altstätten , Basel , Bern , Geneva , Graubünden , Jona , Lucerne , Neuchâtel , St. Gallen , Ticino , Thurgau, Winterthur , Zurich (2). Each parish is led by a local president. Amir (president) of the national organization is Walter Walid Tariq Tarnutzer and mission leader Imam Muhammad Ahmad Rashid (Raşit Paktürk). The annual meeting ( Jalsa Salana ) takes place every autumn in Wigoltingen , in 2004 in the presence of the AMJ caliph , Mirza Masrur Ahmad .
Missionary work
AMJ Switzerland promotes Islam in a variety of ways, including through book tables in local communities, days of open mosques and lectures in which Islam is presented as the religion of peace. Interfaith dialogue is also sought.
Publications
- Ahmadiyya-Bulletin - Journal of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Switzerland
- Khadim - Magazine of the Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya Switzerland
See also
Web links
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Switzerland
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Switzerland at inforel.ch
- Swiss discover Allah - Walter and Sonja convert to Islam. DOK , Swiss television from June 30, 2008. (52 minutes). A film by Stascha Bader and Anne Rüffer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where rooster and crescent greet each other. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 21, 2013, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Swiss discover Allah ( Memento from April 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A warm welcome to Jalsa Salana
- ^ In spite of insult, conciliatory tones. Imam Sadaqat Ahmed also commented on the cartoon controversy after his lecture. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 24 kB), in: Solothurner Zeitung of February 14, 2006
- ↑ Bringing the true teaching closer. Book exhibition on Islam ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 148 kB) in: Langenthaler Tagblatt from May 15, 2006