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THE AMERICAS:. BRAZIL. Jama'at Established in 1985. AHMADIA. DO ISLA with. Waseem A. Zafar. Missionary-in-Charge of Brazil. W. Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission House, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Syed Mahmood Ahmad. Te had been waiting for a long time to establish a mission house in Brazil. Some Ahmadis had been to South. America, but no mission house had yet been established there. So, by the Grace of God, the first mission house has been established in Brazil and now we are looking for a large piece of land where we shall, Insha'Allah, build a great mosque. (Excerpt from the Friday Sermon delivered by His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IVaba on August 30, 1985 at the Fazal Mosque, Badar, October 24, 1985) اله إلا الله محمد رسول الله. LJALSA. SALANA. JAMAAT. AHMADIYYA. BRAZIL. COMERECE. FREU AO. ANUA. ASSOCIA AD. AHMADI,. ISLA BI I. First Jalsa Salana in Brazil, 1994. From right to left: Syed Mahmood Ahmad (Missionary),. Yusuf Yawson, and Afanso Bokhari is I. Abdul Rasheed, a new Ahmadi convert. It is impossible to forget when, for the first time, I visited the headquarters of Ahmadiyyat. Lin Brazil. My mind was confused with respect to Islam, and however strange it may seem, my heart was filled with uncontrollable happiness as if it was saying, 'Enter therein, it is your house. ' While on my way home, I began to reflect on my conversation with the missionary and had discovered that in spite of the false propaganda surrounding me, my heart still remained pure and ready to attend to the call of Islam. (From the letter of Abdul. Rashid, a new Ahmadi Muslim in Brazil) hmadiyya Muslim Association USA: 1994 Souvenir 67