Intro
According to this post, the jamaat collected about US $25 million in tehreek-e-jadid donations in 2025. Taking everything from the jamaat at face value, it’s interesting that they manage to get donations from 1.7 million people, which works out to about $15 per person who donates.

The jamaat also discloses the list of the top nine donor countries, presumably ranked by the amount of donations, although they can’t even fill out a list of top 10 countries and Pakistan is conspicuously absent. The top donor countries are Germany, the UK, the US, Canada, India, Australia, Indonesia, an unspecified Middle Eastern country, and Ghana.

Pakistan is also not mentioned in the summary of the sermon where Mirza Masroor Ahmad discusses these numbers and highlights about 20 countries, none of which are Pakistan. The jamaat justifies being cagey about the Middle East to protect Ahmadis there, but I don’t think it would surprise anybody that Pakistan has a lot of Ahmadis.

Where this gets unstable is how we arrive at a figure of 1.7 million donors. Is it the case that most Ahmadis donated and there are about 2 million Ahmadis in the world? Or is it the case that there are in fact 10-20 million Ahmadis but only 10-20% donate to tehreek-e-jadid?

How much of the $25 million was donated by the 668,000 people who supposedly converted to Ahmadiyyat in 2019? What about the 500,000 people the jamaat has claimed as converts in just the last two years?

You can imagine that the top four donor countries donated at least 50% of the money and likely more. Otherwise the ranking of the top nine countries would just be nine countries that each accounted for 10% of donations, with the other 196 countries accounting for the remaining 10%. The combined Ahmadi populations of Canada, the US, the UK and Germany are 200,000 people at most and they likely donated at least $15 million.

It’s hard to imagine, after listening to sermons on a near-weekly basis about the importance of financial sacrifice, that the other 10-20 million Ahmadis in the world gave between 50 cents and one dollar each to tehreek-e-jadid. Well, I guess you could imagine it, but that just means Ahmadis don’t really listen to what Mirza Masroor Ahmad has to say.

A far more likely scenario is that there only about 500,000 active Ahmadis and they donated whatever they could, whether rich or poor. Donations have grown 600% in the last 20 years, sure, but the figure of $25 million barely cracks the top 10 list of money made by individual creators on OnlyFans last year.

 

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Links and Related Essay’s

What do the 2025 Tehreek-e-Jadid numbers tell us about the jamaat? : r/islam_ahmadiyya

What do the 2025 Tehreek-e-Jadid numbers tell us about the jamaat?
byu/BarbesRouchechouart inislam_ahmadiyya

What is Tahrik-e-Jadid (“The New Scheme”)? – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog

https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2021/01/04/what-is-tahrik-e-jadid/

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