Souvenir on 50th Jalsa Salana USA — Page 28
35th JAi SA SAI"A:SA -1983- DETRIT, l\1ICllIGA:'\J LC>WER Hl RC>~ METR() PARK, BELLVILLE The 35 th Jalsa Salana USA was planned to be he ld at Oakland Universit y. Rochester. Michigan, on August 12. 13 and 14, 19 83. Four days before the Jalsa, on August 8, a devoted worker of the Ahmadiyya Communit y. Dr. Mu1affar Ahmad, was shot and martyred at h is home in Canton, Michigan. The same n ig ht , the home of another A hm adi, Mr. La ce q Bull, was fire-bombed. In th e early morning hours of th e next day. Detroit Jam a'a t Mi ssion Hou se was put to fi re. Two culprits who had started the fire got entrapped and died in th e burning structure. The Oakland University out of fear. did not allow th e Jalsa Salana to be he ld at th e campus. H ad/mil Khalifatul Masih IV (ABA), on hearing th e news instructed the US Jama· at not to cancel th e Jasla which was th en held in the Lo we r l luron Metropolitan Park. Bellevi lie. Michigan. More than one thousand devoted Ahmadis attended th e Jalsa on August 12 an d 1 3. Hadhrar Khalifatul Masih IV (ABA) se nt a most moving and mo ti va ti onal message which was read out by /111a111 Ataullah Kaleem, Amir USA. "See the i11tellige11t insight: Muzaffar is alive even today! Nay, he got a life far greater than that he had! 0 Muza. ffar! Peace be 011 to you! At your back are millions of Muzaffar ready and anxious to move forward and fill-in your place. 0 you who quenched the flame of Muzaffar's life, you have given him a cup of everlasting life to drink. To him lif e is granted, and to you nothing but death!" (Khtuha Jwna delivered by Had/mil Khalifatul Masih IV (ABA) on 12 August 19 83 ) rr<" Ama1 Ataullah Kaleem addressing 35th Jalsa Gathering d