The foundations have been laid for a Manurewa mosque that, when complete, will be New Zealand’s largest.
by JAY BOREHAM Auckland NOW
HOUSE OF PEACE: The Ahmadiyya Muslim community hopes the Manurewa mosque will be finished early in 2013.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community last week held a ceremony to mark the start of work on the Dalgety Dr site. The site is in a largely industrial area.
The community hopes the mosque, which will hold about 600 worshippers, will be finished by May next year.
Community national president Mohammed Iqbal said: “We are earnestly praying and hoping that this will be [completed] in April next year, God willing.
“This project is an extremely important one for us because a mosque symbolises a house of peace and from here we intend to attract families from all walks of life… helping each other despite our beliefs.”
Last Friday’s foundation stone ceremony was an historic occasion and reflects the progress the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has made in the 25 years since it came to New Zealand.
In May the community began 12 months of events to celebrate its silver jubilee.
Iqbal was one of the Ahmadiyya community’s founding members 25 years ago and he believes the community has made tremendous progress.
“We are doing our best to integrate into New Zealand society and to assist people as well.”
Community members contributed generously to the families of the Pike River mine victims, sent working parties to help clean up the liquefaction in the streets of Christchurch after last year’s earthquake and gave financial support to the Christchurch earthquake appeal.
They also work with Immigration New Zealand to help with migrant resettlement programmes, organise charity walks to raise funds for the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind and arrange blood donation to the New Zealand Blood Service.
They also assist in relief efforts across the Pacific.
Other key events set for the jubilee year range from taking part in Feed the Poor Day, spreading peace pamphlets to at least 25 per cent of New Zealanders, launching the Te Reo translation of the Holy Quran and holding a peace conference in Auckland.
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Dear sisters and brothers-in-faith of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community,New Zealand, please accept our heart-felt greetings and congratulations on this historical mements of laying the foundation stone of the Ahmadiyya Manurewa mosque, which will be the largest one when completed in April 2013, InshaAllah by the grace of God. Its beautiful caricature shows that it will also be the most impressively built mosque to house 600 worshipers of God Almighty at a time. This is really a very special occasion for the NL jamaat-e-Masih-e-Muhammadi as you have celebrated your Silver jubilee this year, by the blessings og God, Alhamdolliah. We pray that may God Almighty enable you all NL Ahmadi muslimns to scale new and newer sky-high glories for Islam-er-Ahmadiyyat under the highly glorified Khilafat-e-Khamsa of Hadhart Mirza mansoor Ahmad Sahib and may God enables His Hoilness to continues to serve whole mankind and keep it on the right path of ‘sirat-e-mustaqeem’,for a very, very long time to come, Ameen. Wassalam.
Yet another corner of this wonderful world seeing the accomplishments of this wonderful jamaat.
MashaAllah & BarakAllah!!
Alalho Akber
Congratulations!I am delighted and offer my heart-felt congratulations to the National President Mohammad Iqbal Sahib and all members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim JA’AMAT. May Allah bless this MOSQUE and make it the CENTR OF AHMADIYYA/ISLAM to spread the real peaceful teachings of ISLAM in the SOUTH PACIFIC region down under!
New Zealand has the honour of having A COMPANION OF THE PROMISED MESSIAH burried there-A speck of dust like me, a foot-soldier of AHMADIYYAT came from FIJI in SEPTEMBER,1963 to PREACH AHMADIYYAT as the very FIRST AHMADIYYA MUSLIM PREACHER in spite of having no endorsement of New Zealand in my PAKISTANI PASSPORT in respose to the SPECIAL PRAYERS OF HADHRAT MAULANA GHULAM RASOOL RAJEKI,under the prayers & guidance of Hadhrat MUSLEH-E-MAOOD MIRZA BASHIR UL DIN MAHMOOD AHMAD, KHALIFA TUL MASIH SANI, who was shown a VISION to him that i was blessed to spread the LIGHT of AHMADIYYAT in the SOUTH PACIFIC(1960 to 1963).I was fortunate to sow the seed of AHMADIYYAT along with respected Maulana Shaikh Abdul-WAHID, as a co-founder of AHMADIYYA MISSION IN FIJI in 1960-Please read the whole historical facts in my Autobiography called An AHMADIYYA MUSLIM-revised version on my WEB-SITE freely available to all.Half a century ago I have had the sheer blessing of ALLAH that I PREACHED AHMADIYYAT in AUCKLAND to a MUSLIM FAMILY CALLED”RAWAT” and addressed meetings of some Yougoslavian Muslims settled there-ALHAMDO LILAHE RABUL ALAMEEN.I wish, pray and hope that ALLAH bestows HEALTH & LONGEVITY of life to bless me again to visit New Zealand next year to participate in the OPENING OF the MOSQUE.I have been recently blessed through the SPECIAL PRAYERS OF HADHRAT MIRZA MASROOR AHMAD, KHALIFA TUL MASIH V in an extra-ordinary way that A GRAND MNIFESTATION has been shown to me that OUR BELOVED KHALIFA TUL MASH V IS MOST CERTAINLY REPRESENTING & SHOWING THE CONTINUED BLESSINGS OF THE PROMISED MESSIAH IN THIS DIGITAL MODERN AGE. A POSITIVE PROOF OF THE VERACITY OF THE LIVING ISLAM INTRODUCED BY HADHRAT MUHAMMAD,SAW, FIFTEEN CENTURIES AGO-A TREE IS KNOWN BY THE FRUIT IT YIELDS!!–A humble request to all New Zealand Ja’amat, PLEASE remember me in your prayers-May ALLAH bless you all,amin.