Intro
Mr. Mohammad Saqi (also spelled as Maulana Muhammad Ishaque Saqui) was a missionary of the Qadiani-Ahmadi jamaat. In 1945, he left Qadiani for London. In London, it was decided to send him and Maulana Karam ilahi Zafar to Spain to open Ahmadiyya jamaats. However, after only a few months, the mission was shut down and the murrabi’ were schedule to be re-directed. This is interesting since neither could speak any spanish. Maulana Muhammad Ishaque Saqui was sent to Trinidad and Tobago. He died in 1991 at Trinidad and Tobago (See (Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques Around The World – A Pictorical Presentation. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community; Khilafat Centenary Edition. 2008. ISBN 978-1882494514).
Standing (Right to Left)
Chaudhry Allah Ditta (Ataullah), Syed Safirud Din (stayed in London), Muhammad Usman Siddique (Sierra Leone), Maulvi Karim ilahi, Maulvi Ghulam Ahmad Bashir (first he went to Switzerland, then the Netherlands), Chaudhary Abdul Latif (first he went to Switzerland, then the Netherlands, then Germany), Hafiz Qudratullah (Netherlands), Chaudhry Zahoor Ahmad Bajwa, M. Ihsaq Saqi (Spain and then Trinidad and Tobago).
Sitting (Right to Left)
Master Muhammad Ibrahim Khalil (Italy and later Sierra Leone), Malik Abdur Rahman, Maulana Jalal ud Din Shams (London), Mushtaq A. Bajwa and Sh. Nasir Ahmad (Zurich, Switzerland).
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1945
In 1945, he left Qadiani for London. In London, it was decided to send him and Maulana Karam ilahi Zafar to Spain to open Ahmadiyya jamaats. However, after only a few months, the mission was shut down and the murrabi’ were schedule to be re-directed. This is interesting since neither could speak any spanish. Maulana Muhammad Ishaque Saqui was sent to Trinidad and Tobago.
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1946
The ROR of Oct-1946 reports on Qadiani-Ahmadi’s preaching in Sierra Leone, this report was written by M. M. Siddique. M. M. Siddique reports that him and 2 other Qadiani-Ahmadi Maulvi’s named, Muhammad Ishaque Saqui (written as Soofi Muhammad Ishaque), Maulvi Abdul Haq Nangli and Maulvi Chaudhry N. Ahmad. They planned a tabligh tour of the northern areas of Sierra Leone. They left Bo on May 7th-1946, and landed in Magburaka, they allege to have a mission house, a school and a mosque. They admit that their school is getting money from the government.
The ROR of July 1946 discusses Jalal-ud-Din and the new batch of Qadiani-Ahmadi maulvi’s who have shown up to London. They also talk about his book, “Where Did Jesus Die”. As soon as WW-2 ended, the Ahmadiyya Movement was allowed by the British to send missionaries en masse to Europe. A delegation of nine missionaries, Chaudhry Karam Ilahi Zafar (Spain), Chaudhry Muhammad Ishaq Saqi (Spain for short while, then Trinidad and Tobago), Maulvi Muhammad Usman, Master Muhammad Ibrahim, Maulvi Ghulam Ahmad Sahib Bashir (Switzerland), Maulvi Basharat Ahmad Naseem, Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Ali, Malik Ata-ur-Rehman (Amir of the delegation) and Chaudhry Zahoor Ahmad Bajwa (Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat, Vol. 9, p. 525). The ROR of Jan-Feb-1946 tells the world that on Dec-16-1945 a group of 9 Qadiani-Ahmadi Maulvi’s were sent to Europe. The plan was for all of them to convene in London and with a few staying, one going to Holland, Spain and Germany. It should be noted that per the ROR, 3 Qadiani-Ahmadi maulvi’s were already sent to West Africa in this push. In the ROR of March-1946, the 2nd Khalifa claims that he has sent out 25 Qadiani-Ahmad Maulvi’s and has run out of qualified people (this was a Friday sermon of the 2nd Khalifa, published in the Sunrise, dated Feb-9-1946). Thus, a caravan of Ahmadi mullahs departed in 1945 from the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Community, Qadian towards Bombay harbour, via New Delhi. The group embarked on SS Batory and after three weeks landed in Liverpool where they confronted Jalal al-Din Shams, then a pioneering missionary stationed in England. The caravan spent six months in London at the Fazl Mosque. Shams also has an essay in this edition, “A Challenge To The Church”, this essay is in terms of the alleged grave of Eisa (as) in India.
In what seems to be July of 1946, in London, 14 Qadiani-Ahmadi Maulvi’s took a picture together (see Rashid Ahmad’s, “Perseverance”, page 44). The Al-Hakam alleges that 9 of them were sent from Qadian.
Standing (Right to Left)
Chaudhry Allah Ditta (Ataullah), Syed Safirud Din (stayed in London), Muhammad Usman Siddique (Sierra Leone), Maulvi Karim ilahi, Maulvi Ghulam Ahmad Bashir (first he went to Switzerland, then the Netherlands), Chaudhary Abdul Latif (first he went to Switzerland, then the Netherlands, then Germany), Hafiz Qudratullah (Netherlands), Chaudhry Zahoor Ahmad Bajwa, M. Ihsaq Saqi (Spain and then Trinidad and Tobago).
Sitting (Right to Left)
Master Muhammad Ibrahim Khalil (Italy and later Sierra Leone), Malik Abdur Rahman, Maulana Jalal ud Din Shams (London), Mushtaq A. Bajwa and Sh. Nasir Ahmad (Zurich, Switzerland).
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The Ahmadiyya mission in Trinidad and Tobago re-starts. The first Ahmadiyya missionary sent to the island was Maulana Muhammad Ishaque Saqui. He had initially been sent to Spain, however, the entire mission was abandoned by 1950.
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1991
Maulana Muhammad Ishaque Saqui seems to have served as the Amir and missionary in-charge in Trinidad and Tobago for 46 years, he died in 1991 (Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques Around The World – A Pictorical Presentation. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community; Khilafat Centenary Edition. 2008. ISBN 978-1882494514).
_____________________________________________________________________________________________Links and Related Essay’s
http://www.bashirrafiq.com/page79/page41/index.html
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2021/02/21/the-history-of-ahmadiyya-in-trinidad-and-tobago/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basharat_Mosque
- Yvonne Y. Haddad, Jane I. Smith: Mission to America. Five Islamic sectarian communities in North America. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 1993, p. 49
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