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Jalsa Salana

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Urdu جَلْسَہ سَالَانَہ (jalsah sālānah, “annual convention”).[1]

Proper noun

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Jalsa Salana

  1. (Ahmadiyya) the Jalsa Salana – an annual convention of the community.
    • 2023 July 29, Paul Coates, “Jalsa Salana UK sets a new record attendance at East Worldham”, in Farnham Herald‎[2], archived from the original on 2023-07-29:
      More than 40,000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community descended on East Worldham yesterday (Friday) for the start of Jalsa Salana UK.
    • 2021 August 7, “Jalsa Salana: Thousands head to Alton farm religious gathering”, in BBC News‎[3]:
      The three-day Jalsa Salana usually attracts 35,000 people from around the world but this year it has been scaled back to 4,000 invited guests each day.
    • 2008, Simon Ross Valentine, Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at : history, belief, practice, →ISBN, page 77:
      With their Khalifa taking up permanent residence in the United Kingdom in 1984, the Ahmadi have held their Jalsa Salana [International Assembly], usually in the last week of July, each year, at this location.

References

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  1. ^ Ala Al-Hamarneh, Jörn Thielmann (2008 January 31) Islam and Muslims in Germany‎[1], BRILL, →ISBN, page 314: “The phrase Jalsa Salana means "Annual Convention". The Ahmadiyya has been holding an annual meeting in Qadiyan since 1891.”
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