Intro
The father of Nuruddin Aneesa and Qudsia Hayes made the 1st converts to what is now the Zion Jamaat. Those converts were, Fazli Omar, Al-Haj Ahmad Khalid, Muhammad Sadiq and another brother who now live in AZ (See Qudsia Hayes’ facebook account).
The first National ljtema of Lajna lmaillah USA was held in 1989 in Zion, Illinois.
By 2024, Soofi Tahir Ahmed (@tahirsoofiahmed) is the Director, Food Security HFUSA, MA USA National Director, Zion Chapter President.
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1947
Via the Moslem Sunrise of 1st Quarter-1947, Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali gave 220 South State St., Suite 1010 as the mailing address for the Ahmadiyya Movement in Chicago, he also gave an address at 2532 Center Ave, Pittsburgh, which was managed by Maulvi Mirza Monawar Ahmad. “Life of Muhammad” by Sufi M.R. Bengalee is promoted heavily too.
As soon as Ww-2 ended, the 2nd Qadiani-Khalifa was able to get 3 visas for his Maulvi’s to enter the USA. Thus, Mirza Monawar Ahmad is working as a junior Maulvi (he would be dead soon, on 9-15-1948, after a stomach operation, see the Moslem Sunrise of 1948) and Maulvi Ghulam Yasin (also spelled Yaseen) and the 3rd was Khalil Ahmad Nasir (Missionary-in-charge in the USA until 1959). Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali can also be seen, he left American after almost 20 years of service. Ahmadiyya was starting over again in America, this was the 3rd wave of missionaries and 3rd era.
Allegedly, Maulvi Shukar ilahi Hussain showed up to the USA in roughly July-1947 (See Ahmadiyya Gazette of Oct-2021/Sep-2022).
Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali established a Boston chapter. (Al-Fazl, 13 August 1947).
In 1947, in Chicago, close to the Ahmadiyya temple on Wabash, Maulvi Ghulam Yasin (also spelled Yaseen) met Rashid Ahmad and introduced him to the money making scheme of Ahmadiyya and Rashid Ahmad immediately joins. He was previously sleeping on benches. Now, he is allowed to sleep in the mosque and to use Ahmadiyya facilities. He went on a preaching mission to Zion this year too. By 1949, he was flying to Pakistan and getting trained on how to be an Ahmadi Maulvi (not at Jamia).
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1977-1978
Khuddam Ijtima, St. Louis about 1977-78
These brothers were from Dayton, Ohio, Chicago, Milwaukee, Kenosha, WI and St. Louis, MO. The missionary in the picture was Mian Ibrahim of Dayton. Hafiz Nurruddin is the only boy I recognize. The boy with glasses was from St. Louis. I believe he is now deceased. Al Hajj Abdul Hakeem standing second to last in the front row. Mushin Rashid, (my children’s dad) is seated first in the front row. Ali Aziz is there too. That is Hafiz Nasiruddin yawning. That is me aka Jamil Ahmad on the far right side looking off into the distance. That’s Fahim with his eyes close. The boy sitting at the end to the left is Jawad Wali, the son of Ahmad Wali, a former barber at Pyramid Barbershop. Unfortunately, both father and son are deceased. The brother standing on Ahmad Hanif’s right is Jamil, a longtime member of the StL Jamaat. Habbib shefeek sitting in second row on the far right wearing a striped shirt. Aminullah Ahmad and Abdul Khabir Haqq are there too. The light skinned Brother is Brother Ismael. He was a Convert from Waukegan that was friends with a lot of the Waukegan brother. He was great friends of My father and came to the Waukegan Mosque with Bro. Muhammad Sadiq, Mustafa Abdullah and Abdul Jeelani, the tall brother in the back. I think he is now deceased. The tallest brother in the back is Abdul Jeelani. He is alive and an active member of the Zion Jamaat. Derrick N. Johnson, I was born in 71′ and I am in that photo. I am guessing I was 6 or 7 at the time. Munir Ahmad is my grandfather and was president of the St.Louis Jamat for many years.
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US Ahmadiyya 50th Jalsa Salana (alislam.org)
In the USA, $63, 179 was collected (See page 77) for Tahrik-e-Jadid.
In 1986 an Ahmadi youth was murdered in Zion, Illinois. His name was Fahim Ahmad and he was the son of an Ahmadi couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hanif and Nafia Ahmad (Laeeqa Ahmad was Fahim’s stepmother). The murderer was a Caucasian man, Joey Isbell, who was harassing young black boys in Shiloh Park. He was shaking the bikes as the boys were riding them and flashing a gun at them. Fahim said that he was not afraid of him nor his gun. The murderer then shot him at point blank range with a .357 caliber gun. Fahim died on the spot. He was 16 years old. (see the testimony of Rashid Ahmad his book, “Perseverance”).
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2022
Opening of The Mosque of the Grand Victory in Zion – A Symbol of True Religious Freedom | The Review of Religions
Mirza Masroor Ahmad visits America and opens the new Ahmadiyya temple-mosque in Zion.
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2024
By 2024, Soofi Tahir Ahmed (@tahirsoofiahmed) is the Director, Food Security HFUSA, MA USA National Director, Zion Chapter President.
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Links and Related Essay’s
Who is Rashid Ahmad? The first African-American Ahmadi imam?
https://www.alislam.org/book/perseverance/
Click to access Souvenir-USA-50th-Jalsa-June-1998.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/AMCZion/
Ahmadiyya Zion (@Ahmadiyya_Zion) / X (twitter.com)
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