Intro
In 2026 (Jul), the #2026UKjalsa was held in the UK, this is also the international Jalsa. Mirza Masroor Ahmad lied about Ahmadiyya progress and alleged that 267k new Ahmadi’s for 2025-2026 fiscal year (34:20 time stamp)(vast majority in Africa). Mirza Masroor Ahmad also alleged that 133 new Ahmadiyya temples were opened.
Mirza Masroor Ahmad alleged that 86 new jamaat were created in Benin, Congo-Brazz and Liberia were also in the rankings. Mirza Masroor Ahmad alleged that 172 new mosques/temples were opened by Ahmadiyya, of which 132 were new, again, mostly in Africa. In terms of new mission houses, Indonesia was 2nd.
Firstly the after looking at aerial shots of the Jalsa site, I counted a maximum of 3,000 cars and as you can see in this clip (from last year but my point still stands): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJzdcNCj2eY most cars are the 5 seater ones – and there are very few cars with much more capacity. So lets assume the cars with like 1 empty seat are compensated by the Buses and cars with more capacity – overall we assuming that there are ~3,000 “full” cars each with 5 seats which means around 15,000 people attending – no where near the 50k they claim.
Now if we assume that almost all people bar a few, who have duties around the site, go to the main marquee – this is another good way of counter checking our claim. Just to give an extra liberal estimate of the attendance lets assume that total even 1,000 people are volunteering scattered around the site and not in the Jalsa Gah during the Baiat ceremony. The areas of the main marquees are 50m by 140m for both the men and women sides. Link is here: https://www.alhakam.org/jalsa-uk-2023-update-20-july
Thus the total area of both the men and womens Jalsa Gah is 14,000 square metres. Lets also even assume that there are no chairs and everyone is sitting on the floor (you can seat more people on the ground compared to fitting chairs). If 90% of the marquees are usable for seating and the rest is for cameras, stage, equipment etc. there is still 12,600 sq meters of avilable seating. If one person only takes up 0.5sq metres of area (which is very densly packed btw) then you can fit 25,200 attendees at most across the two marquees.
This is a huge over estimate since we gave so much benefit of doubt. But even then there is NO WAY that the attendance figures are that high. Also most people that come to Jalsa don’t just go for one day so its not possible they had like 17k completely unique people coming in for each of the 3 days. It makes sense at most that they just counted the number of total AIMS ID’s scanned (not differentiating if they were unique or non-unique entries) – even then it seems fishy lol.
Mirza Masroor Ahmad told a big lie and alleged that out of all of Asia, Indonesia saw the most alleged converts to Qadianism. However, an exact number was not given. India and Bangladesh came after in rankings (36:50 timestamp).
Mirza Masroor Ahmad alleged that in Europe, Germany had the most converts to Ahmadiyya, then Holland and then France, exact numbers were not given (37:35 timestamp). The UK was not even mentioned.
In the America’s, Canada was #1 followed by America, then, Paraguay, Mexico, Belize, Haiti and Guyana. Puerto Rico, and others were mentioned.
Watching the International Bait, I noticed something bizarre. The Khalifa sits down, and you can clearly see his son, Mirza Waqas Ahmad, sitting behind him without a mask. He sits there for a while, takes off his sunglasses (yes, indoors), the camera cuts away, and when it comes back, the sunglasses are gone, and suddenly he’s wearing a mask. In the Shorts version you can’t see it because YouTube crops the sides. In the full video it’s visible: https://youtu.be/5W_Jnu-3cpU
The point isn’t whether Mirza Waqas Ahmad wore a mask 30 seconds later. The point is that we’re in 2026 and the Jamaat is still enforcing these bizarre rules around the Khalifa. Everyone around him has to wear a mask. People handing him things are even wearing gloves. Yet his own son is sitting right behind him without a mask until the camera cuts away. That doesn’t exactly scream “strict health protocol.” And we’ve seen the same double standard before. When Western guests are around, like at the Peace Symposium, suddenly nobody is wearing masks: not the guests and not the Ahmadis around the Khalifa. So which is it? Are these measures actually necessary, or are they just for show when the audience is primarily Ahmadi? To me, it looks like the rules are for everyone else, while the Khalifa’s family gets a pass. That’s the point of the post.

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