Caliphate Day or Khilafat Day (
Urdu: ''Yaum-e-Khilafat'') is commemorated annually on 27 May by members of the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in remembrance of the significance of the system of spiritual leadership within the community known as
Khilafat
A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...
. The current Khalifa is
Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the 5th in line of successors of
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad whom the Ahmadis consider the Promised Messiah.
References
Ahmadiyya events
May observances
Islamic terminology
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