Inspiring Events in the Field of Tabligh — Page 85
Maulana Ataul Mujeeb Rashed Imam of the London Mosque Ataul Mujeeb Rashed was born on 27th August, 1943, at Qadian, India. He is a son of a renowned missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Maulana Abul Ata Jalandhri. Qadian is the permanent headquarters of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community but following the partition of India new headquarters were set up in Rabwah, Pakistan in 1947. Imam Rashed also migrated to Pakistan that year. Maulana Rashed received his Primary education in village Ahmad Nagar (near Rabwah, Pakistan) and completed his Matriculation in 1959 from Talimul-Islam High School, Rabwah. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1963, obtaining a gold medal in Arabic from Talimul-Islam College, Rabwah, and Masters in Arabic in 1965 from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. He dedicated his life for the service of Islam and Ahmadiyyat in 1965 and was admitted in Jamia Ahmadiyya (the Ahmadiyya seminary), Rabwah, for further studies the same year. He passed his Maulavi Fazil (Honours in Arabic) in 1966 and obtained a gold medal for achieving first position in the Punjab province of Pakistan. He graduated from Jamia Ahmadiyya obtaining the degree of Shahid as a trained missionary in 1969. Maulana Rashed’s first appointment as missionary was at the Fazl Mosque, London in the capacity of Deputy Imam in September 1970. He went back to Pakistan in September 1973 and was elected International President of the worldwide Ahmadiyya youth organization, Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya Central, in October, 1973. He served in this capacity during the most troubled period of 1974 in Pakistan. He has been editor of Khalid, Tashheezul-Azhan and Al- Manar for several years. Also served on editorial staff of Al-Furqan. Maulana Rashed arrived in Tokyo on 11th February, 1975 as the Amir and Missionary in Charge for Japan. During his eight and half years stay in Japan he conducted extensive preaching tours in the length and breadth of the country on his ‘Missionary Car’ decorated with preaching slogans. This activity was widely covered in the Japanese Press. He was able to negotiate the purchase of a brand new building in Nagoya in 1981 which now serves as the Headquarters of our mission in Japan. He started a quarterly magazine in Japanese and English