Friday Sermon (Urdu)
Fridays, 1pm London Time
Live Translations: English, Arabic, Bangla, French, Turkish.
Each week on Friday, Muslims are required to take a bath, dress in their best clean clothes, wear perfume and assemble in the mosque for Friday Prayer.
Friday Prayer is an occasion for the assembly of the Muslims of a whole city or a town. It gives them an opportunity to meet together to discuss and solve their individual as well as community problems. Getting together once a week develops unity, co-operation and cohesiveness among Muslims.
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (atba), the Caliph and worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, delivers the Friday Sermon each Friday from the Baitul Futuh Mosuqe in London, the largest Mosque in Western Europe. MTA broadcasts the Friday Sermon Live with up to 5 simultaneous translations, and also provides an online stream.
Through MTA therefore, the Imam is able to address not just the congregation, but also the entire world. The Friday Sermon, in this way, becomes a demonstration of Islamic equality. It gives the Imam a chance to advise all Muslims at the same time on urgent matters that face them.
|
 |
Question and Answer Session (English)
Thursdays, 6pm GMT
Translations: Urdu, French, Turkish.
The late fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra), was a man of exceptional qualities. An emininent scholar of religion, theologian, scientist, homeopath, phsychologist, and poet, he was a person of profound wisdom and exceptional intellect and understanding, and possessed incredible knowledge over a huge range of subjects, secular and religious alike.
In these entertaining and intellectually stimulating programmes, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra) answers questions from guests, in sessions that he held through out the world. Some of the questions include, why do only women in Islam have to cover themselves? How can there be a prophet after the Prophet Muhammad (saw)? What is the future of western society? Are natural disasters a punishment from God? The Caliph’s style of blending deep intellectual knowledge with great humour allows for entertaining and thought provoking programmes, in which he often provides answers to common questions in an entirely new light.
|
|
Intikhab-e-Sukhan (Urdu)
Saturdays, 3pm GMT
Live Request Programme
Hosted by Mubarak Siddiqi
Intikhab-e-Sukhan is a television program on MTA that features popular videos and music-free songs of poetry, known as ‘nazms’. The programme allows viewers the opportunity to interact with MTA by sending messages, which are read out live. The program plays the top most requested nazms of the week, as requested by viewers who can vote online, fax, email, or phone live during the programme. The programme begins with a ‘hamd’, beautiful poems to express love and devotion to God, followed by a ‘na’at’, poems written in praise of the Holy Founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad (saw).
Intikhab-e-Sukhan features poetry from some of the most exceptional poets of past and present. These include beautiful couplets and verses from the poetry of the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Other poets, such as the outstanding Obaidullah Aleem, considered one of the greatest poets in Pakistan’s history, also feature regularly. The poetic verses are sung by various singers and accompanied with ‘nazm videos’.
The 40th Jalsa Salana UK is being held July 28 to July 30, 2006
It is the First Historic Jalsa at Hadeeqa-tul-Mahdi.
|
|
|
|
|