Al-Fazl ( Urdu الفضل) has been the most important regular publication of the

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...

History

Founded in 1913 in

Qadian Qadian (; ; ) is a city and a municipal council in Gurdaspur district, north-east of Amritsar, situated north-east of Batala city in the state of Punjab, India. Qadian is the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya m ...

, the

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was initially published weekly, then three times a week and then daily as of 1935. Until 1947 it was published from Qadian and then from

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up to 1954. Since then it is published from

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. The newspaper has been publishing the sermons, sayings and announcements of all the

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for nearly a century. In Pakistan, the ''Al-Fazl'' was subject to the Pakistani law enforcement which suspended the publication of the newspaper for several months in 1984. And now a day's it is suspended since 2015 and not being published in Pakistan but still working from London.

Mission

Within the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the newspaper serves as a vehicle for the moral upbringing of the members, preaching of Islam and the preservation of history of the Movement.

International reach

In the

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, ''Al Fazl'' started its international service, starting its publication on 7 January 1994 published by the Raqeem press. It is also available online.

References

External links

Al Fazl Online
Ahmadiyya periodicals Daily newspapers published in Pakistan Newspapers published in England {{Ahmadiyya-stub