Answers to Everyday Issues Part 96
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The recent campaign to declare Ahmadis ‘NonMuslim’ in Bangladesh
I have seen their faces: Echoes of the past in a modern age
Khilafat: Wisdom that transcends time, culture, and age
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THE WEEKLY
www.alhakam.org AL HAKAM | Friday 5 December 2025 | Issue CDIII Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC), 22 Deer Park Road, London, SW19 3TL, UK info@alhakam.org | ISSN 2754-7396
Celebrating 30 years of serving humanity Keynote address by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V at the Humanity First International Conference 2025 Humanity First is a charitable trust established to promote and safeguard human life and dignity. Since its foundation in the UK in 1995 by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IVrh, it has assisted more than 16.7 million people and operates in 67 countries, with projects in many more. Humanity First’s programmes include Disaster Relief, Community Care, Orphan Care, Food Security, Knowledge for Life, Water for Life, Global Health, Gift of Sight, and much more.
30 years of Humanity First: In numbers In the past 30 years, Humanity First has responded to over 284 disaster events in 111 countries across six continents, and assisted over 2.9 million victims of earthquakes, floods, droughts, conflict and other types of disaster events. It assisted over a million people during the Covid-19 pandemic across 78 countries. When it comes to “Community Care”, Humanity First operates an elder home in Sao Tome, a clothes bank in Nigeria, and operates in 57 cities, supporting homeless people and refugees. Overall, this project has seen over 197,000 beneficiaries. It has also established three orphanages in Benin, Uganda and Indonesia and assisted over 13,000 orphans with shelter,
healthcare, education, clothing and food. Many people around the world lack food security; Humanity First aims to make a difference. As such, it operates 11 food banks and meal points in Canada, Georgia, Greece, South Africa, Sweden, Mexico, the UK and the USA. It has over 50 crop processing machines deployed to process cassava, maize, rice, cous and palm oil, and distributes meat from Muslim animal sacrifices in 67 countries. In total, 6.3
million people have been helped under this programme. With its “Knowledge for Life” programme, Humanity First has built or runs 100 schools across the world, and has 56 training centre projects covering IT, tailoring, languages, construction trades, hair dressing, and livestock management. The aim is to get people to work for themselves, and thus, Humanity First has helped over 289,000 students, and over
72,000 people have graduated from its training centres. The “Water for Life” programme has done over 6,100 water installation projects, including wells, hand pumps, and solar boreholes, serving over 5.9 million people. The programme offers a range of clean water solutions for villages and small towns in low-income countries, as well as proper sanitation facilities. Humanity First also runs 11 hospitals and clinics in Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Congo Republic, Guatemala, Indonesia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, with 2 more hospitals under construction in Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania. It has held medical outreach clinics in 27 countries and treated over 880,000 patients. Its “Gift of Sight” programme operates in 25 countries, where over 65,000 patients have been treated. It also operates two mobile surgical units in Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo.
The conference This year’s conference celebrated 30 years of service to humanity, and was held on 28-30 November 2025 at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden. Approximately 45 delegates from over 50 countries were in attendance. The theme for this year’s conference was “Peace, Compassion & Humanity.” Continued on page 3