Those calling
@JustinTrudeau
a dictator:
I might be dead today if I handn’t come to Canada.
Ppl in
#dictatorships
don’t cry while sipping the Starbucks their CERB paid for.
#Canada
is my paradise & I will defend its graces on me till my last breath.
#IStandWithTrudeau
Those calling
@JustinTrudeau
a dictator:
It is obscenely offensive to those of us who have barely escaped from actual dictatorships and found heaven here.
As a Muslim, I will never die fighting for ISIS, but will gladly die a hundred times for
#Canada
.
#Istandwithtrudeau
So Stage 3 of re-opening is being announced tomorrow while Sylvan Lake is apparently already at stage 25 today which means that we’re going back to Stage 1...
THREAD: “A FLIGHT THAT CHANGED MY LIFE.”
#sundayvibes
#ItsOkayToNotBeOkay
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I sat sandwhiched between entitlement and poverty on an international flight.
Only I didn’t know it yet.
A white blond woman was seated next a Pakistani man.
Once, when Maulana Mubarak Nazeer Sahib was speaking, a Christian woman donning a beautiful headdress, turned to me and - tears streaming down her face - exclaimed “God has touched this man! God has touched this man!”
How right she was.
Once, while speaking to a mixed audience
There’s no stopping this caravan of
#Ahmadiyya
Mute 1 Azan & we’ll call millions more.
Close 1 mosque and we’ll build 1000s anew.
Murder 1 innocent Ahmadi and 100,000 will take his place.
The fire of your own jealousy will consume you.
We don’t fear you.
We pity you.
THREAD:
How
#Canada
Saved My Life: A
#CanadaDay2020
Story
When a country gives you a chance at life, you become willing to give your life for it.
Those of us whose parents migrated to Canada opened our eyes in a paradise and silver spoons in our mouths.
And I don’t mean the cash.
God, no.
The kindness was in him accepting it from me and giving me the gift of imagining his little daughters with another dress or two. Maybe a toy.
We who grew up in Canada. We have everything.
Everything.
So let’s give back a little.
THREAD: THE THIEF WHO GAVE ME EYES
I once took $20 to school in gr. 7 on my B-Day. We don’t celebrate birthdays by throwing big parties, but we give back. So that morning after prayer, my dad gave me $20 to donate where I’d like.
After class I noticed it wasn’t in my jacket...
Remember when clouds like this use to evoke terror in people?
2020 has made apocalyptic photography more important than running for dear life ☄️🌪🌊💨⛈🔥😂.
#ONStorm
At the request of the organizers, this is an incident that showed me how the prayers of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih (aba) are unstoppable.
There is no impeding the grace of Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya.
There is no retarding this caravan’s progress.
God is with us.
#MyKhilafatStory
Beloved Huzoor has:
Spent nearly 3 YEARS (1071 days) on tour.
Been on 109 tours.
Met with 190,692 people in personal Mulaqats on these tours.
Has inaugurated 103 mosques.
He has met with 24,237 dignitaries.
O Allah! Be with him at every step & every breath, Ameen!
Some
#BlackOutTuesday
FACTS you probably never knew: (A thread)
1. Black people were declared equal to every other human on the planet 1400 years ago by the Prophet Muhammad.
The End of the World No One is Talking About.
A Thread.
When we think of all life ending, a lot of things come to mind. Cataclysmic meteors, the sun’s expansion burning earth to a crisp, massive flooding by melted ice caps, the greenhouse effect.
But the most imminent one..
The word Eid literally means something that comes time and time again.
It’s a reminder that no matter how tumultuous and trying the times are, happiness will return.
Eid Mubarak - May the apple of your eyes and the twinkle in your skies return once again.
#EidAladha2020
THREAD: The Disgusting Culture of Self-Racism in our Own Homes.
“Don’t drink tea - you’ll turn black.”
“Don’t go in the sun. You’ll darken and no one will marry you.”
“Wash your face with milk to become whiter.”
A True Story.
Pic Credit: Adam Jones.
#GeorgeFloydMemorial
I honestly am nearly in tears in anticipation of the Man of God speaking and crowning this Summit with his holiness.
The Summit of
#TheGodSummit
is almost here.
The world is about to pulse with the beat of Khilafat for God.
Please tune in. Let’s come to life.
Use all the erasers in the world - the definition of a Muslim engraved in rock will reduce your erasers to dust, but it will forever remain.
#AhmadisAreMuslims
Very humbly:
Don’t forget to take a moment to disconnect from the draining black hole of information overload on social media.
Take the baggage over to your prayer mat.
And decompress before the Lord of all the worlds.
Tweets are black holes.
True Du’a is a Big Bang.
So here’s to Canada - the country that gave millions a chance at a better life, and inspired generations to be amazing.
“My prayer is that Canada becomes the whole world, and all the world becomes Canada.”
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh)
Happy
#CanadaDay2020
to all of you!
A man who weeps for a world who sleeps.
اَللّٰھُمَّ أَیِّد٘ إِمَامَناَ بِرُو٘حِ ال٘قُدُس!
O Allah! help and assist our beloved Imam with the power of the Holy Spirit!
#Khilafat
#USAtour2018
#Ahmadiyya
Ok but can we please just take a moment to appreciate
@Raza_Ahmed2000
’s
#Ramadan
outfits? 😃
Being camera-ready every day during fasting is not easy. Not to mention the behind the scenes work on the daily.
@muslimtv
You guys bring the magic of this month to us every year. 👌
Welcome to Calgary,
Where they simply shrug off weekly tornadoes, summer hail the size of your face, monthly flooding and other apocalyptic weather because 2020 had to choose someone.
#yycstorm
#abstorm
My 3 year-old said “Papa, I kiss you goodnight because it makes my heart happy. Does it make your heart happy too?”
I nodded.
She said: “Yeah, I have to take care of you.”
I melted.
We spend all day taking care of them when in so many ways it’s the other way around.
“Only when the last tree has been cut down,
the last fish been caught,
and the last stream poisoned,
will we realize
we cannot eat money.”
Today we celebrate a people who irrigated Canada for generations with their boundless love for nature.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
It’s amazing
How a single square foot
of cuteness
Can become your whole world.
“Certain music can be a tonic for the soul.”
- Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV (rh)
“Adopt the loyalty of Prophet Abraham (as) who gave up every single thing he had for His Lord.”
Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) to the new Batch of Ahmadiyya Missionaries.
THREAD
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
FACT: If a person who expresses a particular plan to take their own life(which they can also carry out) he/she is far more likely to do it.
Suicide prevention isn’t just about stopping the physical attempt.
It’s about looking for the signs:
Somewhere between the immaculate Urdu and incredible English, beyond the beaming radiance from his face and behind his unending smile, he made an alien out of me.
And for that I owe him more than I can ever give.
God rest and raise his soul to astounding heights. Ameen.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is that if we redirected our judgement toward our actions before committing them, rather than on the actions of others, both our hearts and our actions will become beautified, and safer for others.
And I hope to improve on that everyday.
Don’t ever waste your wounds.
They are portals of progress.
Sometimes, the anguish of a supplicant reaches the heavens even before it reaches the tongue.
Sow your tears into the soil of Sajdah, and watch the tree of light expel all darkness.
#HappyNewYear2023
Congratulations to the only “real Ahmadi” in history who literally doesn’t know the difference between a local Sadr and the National Ameer of a country.
“I’m a true Canadian and I don’t consider Trudeau our local Mayor anymore.”
🤯
The lady who sat to my left tried to make her annoyance that we were speaking not-English as pronouncedly clear as she could.
But we were on an international flight from Qatar.
So I paid no heed.
Sometimes you just don’t feed intolerance any oxygen at all.
I could have been him and he, myself.
The realization fell like explosive thunder on my heart. It was only God’s Grace that I grew up in a paradise called
#Canada
.
I realized then and there that the 200.00 in my pocket never belonged to me. I would not keep it a second more.
Yesterday I was talking to my wife about Canada, and after a bit, she looked me with a smile.
“What?” I asked.
“You really love Canada, don’t you?” She asked.
My little heart almost burst like a maple leaf-shaped piñata filled with Timbits.
“I really do.”
#CanadaDay2020
An audience of scholars and children alike, he started his speech:
“I am no scholar. I am not knowledgeable like all of you. But I have drank the water of 30 countries. So please, lend me your ear a brief moment. You may find something that quenches your thirst.”
Ever noticed how converts to Ahmadiyya don’t devote countless hours to talking trash about the beliefs they left behind, but Ex-Ahmadis often do?
It’s because Ahmadi converts have found peace & solace; instead of devoting all day to spewing negativity they devote t/s to God.
“You know,” I said to him.
The Prophet Muhammad once said, “When God intends good for His servant, He grants him a daughter.”
He became emotional. “No doubt!”
I could see the fire of pride raging in this fathers chest - the flickers danced in his eyes.
This man was my age.
While the rest of the world celebrates “tolerating” differences, we celebrate them.
We’re not perfect.
We know that.
But try breathing the crisp mountain air in
#BC
after returning from one of the most polluted cities in the world.
#OhCanada
Happy 4th of July
A TRUE STORY:
Once, on a flight in the USA, an older air hostess came around with the beverage cart and asked me in a rather rude tone:
“Anything to drink?”
I looked up at her and smiled really big. She looked in her 50s and tired. Maybe someone’s mom.
Once I was in Africa - Sierra Leone - and met a group of people who spoke so highly of him that it astonished me.
I went to Germany, and there people told me that his speech at their Jalsa changed the way they saw God forever.
In Canada, an entire generation adores him.
But what he will never know is that the impress that he left on my heart is greater than all the money in the world.
We may never see each other again, but there’s this connection on the most human level imaginable between two people connected by an act of simple kindness.
Make however much noise you want.
Person.
After person.
After person.
Is testifying to the truth of Ahmadiyya Islam & the genius of Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya.
There is no stopping this caravan.
His genius which exuded a universe of love for Hazrat Masih Mau’ud (as) and Khilafat lives on in the minds of nations and hearts of generations.
“You are aliens.” He used to say. “You’re young and sitting here on a Saturday night for Allah. You are aliens in this world.”
The very first time I met my little Zahra.
You just know
In that moment,
that you would die a thousands times for this tiny thing.
“Towers of gold are still too little
These hands
Could hold
the world
And it’ll
Never be enough...”
#fathersday2020
#FathersDay
“Brother,” I explained calmly.
You are my brother in humanity. And then in Islam. I want to send to my nieces this envelope. I am not giving it to you. You are doing me a favor. A huge favor. Please. Tell them an Ahmadi Muslim uncle sent it.”
He very reluctantly took it.
And at the end of a long series of amazing speeches, he said that “people the world over told me they enjoyed my addresses, but I did not care.
Only when Hazrat Khalifatul Masih called my speech good; that was the only comment I cared for - the only praise I valued.”
It was quiet.
“You know I work six months for this amount,” he said, his voice cracking from trying to contain his emotions to his trembling throat.
I looked at him. I was so ashamed. We spend $200 on a few groceries or a couple of meals at Moxies with friends.
Perhaps it’s because in
#Canada
we’re all soldiers of immigration.
There’s a war we’ve all fought - yes, maybe thousands of miles away from each other - but Canada is where we all came to heal.
Our wounds are invisible, but other immigrants can see them.
#Canadians
see them
No games.
No tricks.
No bias.
Hear it from the mouth of non-Ahmadi Muslim Arabs themselves.
Watch and share please.
@romaanbasit
don’t stop this series brother. Let the educated world decide for itself.
That’s when it hit me.
I had on me just over 200.00 CAD which I had kept aside for any emergency. I kept thinking about his daughters.
I asked to see more pictures of them and he had many. There was no toy in the pictures. But they looked so happy.
So palpably content.
“When I was young I was sold to the human trafficking market in Pakistan. One day a group of us just escaped.”
I was shocked.
“I returned to my village but many of my cousins and friends did not. I was one of the lucky ones.”
He said it with true gratefulness and pain.
He was perplexed.
“How do you know anyone in my village?”
“ I know several people in your village,” I responded.
I took out the envelope with the money.
“There are 2 little girls in your village. This belongs to them. Please do this favor for me.”
He was utterly confused.
@ReviewReligions
Mazhar Ahsan’s Sb’s volcanic thirst to inspires souls toward their Creator did not go in vain.
As he rests with Allah, today his story stirred a whole generation toward loving its Living Creator
He breathed life into millions today.
#TheGodSummit
#GodSummit
“He who prays like us, faces our Qiblah and eats our Halal, he is a Muslim - one whose Islam God Himself has taken responsibility.”
That’s the definition of a Muslim given by the Prophet Muhammad (sa)
And no amount of senseless screaming will change that.
#AhmadisAreMuslims
“What is this?”
He opened the envelope, and he looked back at me with horror. It was 6 month’s salary for him in Pakistani rupees.
He pushed it back unceremoniously into my hands. “HOW are you carrying all this? I cannot take it!”
He looked both offended and scared.
I’ve lived in Europe,
walked the soils of Africa,
seen the luxuries of the Middle East
& felt the waves of the Uruguayan coast crash against my feet.
I’ve swam in Mexican cenotes, seen NYC & London,
& drank from Sierra Leonean wells.
But nothing compares to
#Canada
“Can you help me?” I asked him.
“Of course!” He sat up immediately.
“I need you to promise me you will take this as a trust. There is someone in your village I must send an important thing to. Promise me you’ll deliver it to their hands,” I tried to say it with urgency.
Those who oppose Khilafat will fade into oblivion.
So let them burn away their fingertips against us.
Those fingertips will be their ruin.
Not a soul will know their name.
Their children will serve Khilafat and look back at them with shame.
He was beaming.
I tried to smile. I really did. 25,000 rupees was $200.00 Canadian.
“And before that, what were you doing?” I pressed on, perhaps insensitively.
This time he broke eye contact. Became distant.
“We worked - school wasn’t an option.” He laughed timidly.
Plz take 5 minutes to peruse this compelling piece on the power of the Hijab and womanhood in Islam by
@ajirsti
“It is not in spite of Islam that we strive to attain education, but because of it.”
Never underestimate the power of being humble.
Humility is the unspoken force which keeps a candle from becoming a ravenous flame; yet, it illuminates the cosmos like the stars.
Light this candle & watch it defend you with the eloquence of a thousand poets.
#SaturdayThoughts
When the food came around, the woman muttered something about how she hates airplane food.
The man, I soon noticed, was awkwardly pouring his jam onto some cheese and would nervously look at me and then back.
I realized he had no idea how to eat what was in front of him.
He explained how he walked several miles everyday with some other boys to carry different foodstuff and tools.
“Those were the good times,” he continued.
“We would each get our own flatbread for dinner and had it with crushed chillies!”
I looked at my iced Caramel Macchiato.
“I go to Kuwait for 6 months at a time for labor work.” He explained the harsh conditions, but not with complaint.
He wore an indignant smile the whole time.
I asked him how much he made in 6 months.
“Oh we’re very blessed now! With this new job I’ll be getting 25,000 RS!”
Never privilege those who set petty fires with the oxygen of attention.
Everyone knows and sees what they’re doing no matter what games they play.
People are not stupid.
“Beware the discerning insight of a believer.”
Prophet Muhammad (saw)
The lady next to him was doing everything in her entitled power to make abundantly clear how deeply inconvenienced she felt sitting next to him.
I offered my window seat to the gentleman so that I would sit between them before a flight attendant was bothered.
She grunted.
She was perhaps in her forties and looked well-to-do.
The man next to her was wearing traditional Pakistani attire and was thin as they come.
I could tell from his face that he had been through the ringer. Life had not been easy for him. He looked famished but resilient.
“It can be confusing, food in a plane!” I said in Urdu, so that he wouldn’t feel embarrassed.
I showed him the way to eat the cheese with the crackers and the jam with the bread and butter.
He spoke a very rustic form of village Urdu. I asked him his story.
He began:
My parents brought me here when I was one.
Even today, I would be arrested for my beliefs in Pakistan, or killed without investigation.
Yet;
#Canada
celebrates me for my beliefs.
#CanadaDay2020
I noticed her watch. Michael Kors. The quintessential Starbucks (which I also had in my hand) and the familiar scent of Lily by Marc Jacobs contrasted the absolute simplicity of the man to my right.
That’s when I had a conversation which changed my life.
The plane took off.
I realized in that moment that even the most fleeting interactions with people who may not matter, matter.
Like a German friend once said, “The kindness in a Canadian’s tone is the warmest in the world.”
So Happy 4th of July.
Be kind.
Even to strangers.
When the Prophet Muhammad (sa) took the census of Muslims in Medina, he said
“Write down for me whoever says by his mouth that he is a Muslim.”
On that day - not one edict of Kufr was handed out.
#AhmadisAreMuslims
Due to
#COVID19
the world is facing a great shortage in blood donations!
Muslim youth in Canada
@AMYACanada
are stepping up to serve humanity.
What are you doing in your community to “be the best of Ummah?”
Let’s share below!
@CanadasLifeline
“And in the end,
it was a man in a suit, perfectly pressed,
a face, perfectly shaven,
with hair, perfectly combed,
shoes, perfectly polished,
and an ego, perfectly roused,
that ended the world.”
- History books 100 years later, probably.
#WW3
#war
THREAD: 2022 - A Snapshot from 100 Years Ago.
• Type 1 Diabetes is no longer a death sentence - insulin is first used on humans in Toronto
• A Published Survey projects that the US will be out of oil in 20 years
• The flu is currently an “epidemic” in the UK.
#NewYear2022
5 Traits of Toxic People:
1. They think everyone is toxic but themselves.
2. They constantly blame others for all their problems.
3. They cut people off and return only when they need.
4. They are always the victim.
5. They are highly threatened by the excellence of others.
“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river poisoned, the last fish, caught, will man realize that money cannot be eaten.”
Today we reflect the injustices against our aboriginal ancestors & celebrate their invaluable place in the world.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
Dear Ahmadi Muslims:
We Ahmadis are not fazed by any hollow attack.
Take some time out of your day to read this series of articles by
@RRanswers
. The truth of every narrative prevails in the end, granted we give it the oxygen it deserves.
Plz:
R/T it.
Like it.
Share it.
NEW SERIES:
#OUTREASONED
Check out our 15 ARTICLES 🖊️ replying to criticisms of Ahmadiyya the True Islam, made by Sohail Ahmad, aka
@ReasonOnFaith
.
👇THREAD
Try tasting the water that cascades in all its aquamarine glory down a
#Jasper
mountain after the tap water elsewhere.
Try going to any other place in the world where people will smile back, say please and thank you, or “surry” as much as a
#Canadian
will.
#CanadaDay2020