On 28 December 1975, seventy people met in the in Hamburg for the first Jalsa Salana in Germany, and Maulana Fazal Ilahi Anweri, then and in Germany, chaired the opening and closing sessions. This weekend the fiftieth is being held at Mendig with about forty-eight thousand.
He wrote down what those years were like
The writing survives. These passages in his memoirs describe the years between his return to Germany in 1972 and the first Jalsa:
- The first Khuddam ijtema in Germany, at the Nur Mosque in Frankfurt, 9 to 11 June 1973In his own account · ¶627
- Lajna Imaillah in Germany, and its first president Qanita, who had joined the community in Copenhagen in 1967In his own account · ¶631
- Dividing Frankfurt and Hamburg into halqas so that no one was left outside a circleIn his own account · ¶558
- After the agitation in Pakistan: friends arriving, and the German correspondence Hadayatullah Hübsch took onIn his own account · ¶572
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