These are references to him in published sources outside the family archive. Some corroborate the manuscripts. One is written by him. One overstates his role. None of them is an endorsement of this website; they are simply the places where his name appears in the public record.
Published elsewhere, in his own words
By him
الفضل سے وابستہ میری یادیں / My memories of
Al Fazl International, 6 October 2025.
His own account of what the newspaper meant to his family, from his father ordering it in the 1930s to it supplying the material for his books. Published eight years after his death.
alfazl.com/2025/10/06/132236On the prophecies of the (as) concerning world change
Al Fazl International, 24 February 2022.
Al Fazl quotes him at length from his volume in the series on the prophecies about world change and the third world war.
alfazl.com/2022/02/24/38130اسلام پر صلیبی یلغار / The Crusader assault on Islam
, UK, March to August 2021, in three parts.
Published four years after his death.
khadimemasroor.uk, علمی مسائلOn the end of certain opponents of the Promised Messiah (as)
Canada, January, February and March 2011, reprinted in Al Fazl Digest, 24 and 31 March 2017.
alfazl.com/2017/04/14/77261-e-Ahmadiyyat, volume six, cited as a source
Al Fazl International, 10 October 2020.
Al Fazl draws on volume six of his series for accounts of the companions’ relationship with God, which shows the work is still in active use as a reference.
alfazl.com/2020/10/10/23506About his books
Mahmood Ahmad Malik’s introduction to Darweshan-e-Ahmadiyyat
Ansaruddin, London, July to October 2013, reprinted in Al Fazl Digest, July 2021.
Describes the series as running to several volumes of several hundred pages each, and names volume three as Hifazat-e-Samawi.
alfazl.com/2021/07/04/31964History of the in Germany
Al Fazl International, 14 September 2018.
Records the first Jalsa on 28 December 1975 at the , Hamburg, opened and closed by him, with about seventy present.
alfazl.com/2018/09/14/53226Cherished Memories of Africa
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Lists him among the and of the Gambia.
files.alislam.cloud, Cherished-Memories-of-Africa.pdfHis own words, in English
A message he wrote to the alumni association of , published on their site. This is a primary source in his own English, not a translation. He writes as one of the first batch of students of 1944 and gives his own account of the college's journey: begun at while the Second World War was at its height and everything was scarce, "of necessities of life, of money, of material and even of staff and students"; migrated to Lahore after Partition, restarted "as if from a scratch, first in a forsaken house of Dr. Khaim Singh in the Canal Park; then in the utterly ruined building of D.A.V. College, Lahore", where as a third-year student he remembered every window being rebuilt; then moved to ; and in 1974 "taken, nay confiscated by the then Government of Pakistan in the name of the so called nationalisation."
The same places, Canal Park and D.A.V. College, appear in his Urdu manuscript and on page 14 of the 2019 printed book. An English text he wrote and an Urdu text he typed, agreeing.
One difference, plainly: the association's introduction says he was given roll number one "for having stood first in his school in the matriculation examination". His own Urdu account says his marks were the highest of the fifty-one students admitted to the college at that point. These are not the same claim. Both are recorded here; they are not merged.
A book of his, published in German by the community
Announced on 8 July 2016 as a new brochure: "Der Heilige Qur'an über den Weltraum & interplanetarische Flüge", author Fazal Ilahi Anweri. It is an official German Ahmadiyya publication carrying his name as author, issued in 2016, the year before he died.
The Nigeria record, independently
A detailed history of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at in Nigeria. Its table of Amirs lists him at entry 17, for 1968 to 1972 and 1983 to 1986, and prints his name under a variant transliteration, and an editorial note states that he first came as Amir and Missionary In-charge in 1968, was reassigned in 1972, was posted back in 1983, and in April 1986 was reassigned to the international headquarters at Rabwah. This independently confirms both Nigerian terms as his manuscripts give them.
Between 1968 and 1969 he divided the Agbede Circuit into four circuits: Agbede, Benin, Auchi and Agenebode.
It also records that when the Sango-Otta Mission was established in 1981, Alhaji A.A. Aboleja built a mosque and handed it over to the Jama'at, and that the mosque was opened with a Jumu'ah service by Maulana F.I. Anweri, the then Amir and Missionary Incharge, Nigeria, in 1983.
Muhammad Ali at the Nuur Mosque
The published account of the Nuur Mosque in Frankfurt records that Muhammad Ali prayed there before his world title defence against Karl Mildenberger at the Waldstadion on 10 September 1966. Maulana Anweri was the mosque's Imam at the time.
Amir in Germany, Nigeria and The Gambia, and a missionary in Ghana
The alumni association describes him as having served "as missionary and Amir in Germany, Nigeria and Ghana". The published lists of Amirs of Ghana do not include him, they run Nayyar, Hakeem, Nazir Ahmad Ali, Nazir Ahmad Mubashir, Atta Ullah Kaleem, Basharat Ahmad Bashir, and then others. His own account says he went to Ghana in 1956 as a missionary and was posted to the school at Swedru, which is consistent with those lists and not with the word Amir.
He was Amir and Missionary In-charge in Germany, Nigeria and The Gambia, and a missionary in Ghana.
Akhbar-e-Ahmadiyya Germany, the name he chose
There is a monthly Akhbar-e-Ahmadiyya Germany published today from Frankfurt by the National Shoba Tasneef. Maulana Anweri founded an Urdu news-sheet of that name in about 1974, which closed in mid-1975 when the man who did its calligraphy was recalled. We do not claim these are the same publication or a continuous line: the present monthly's volume numbering points to a start decades later. We state only that the name he chose is in use again today. Whether there is any continuity is recorded as an open question; what would settle it is the masthead of the earliest surviving issue of the present series.
The Old Students Association
The association’s report of its first annual dinner in 2006 records that he was honoured as the first student admitted when Talim-ul-Islam College opened at Qadian. He is not named as a founder of the association in this report or in the association’s own history, and this site does not describe him as one.
youtube.com, address of 24 September 2011, from 31:40In the recording of the association’s gathering at Frankfurt on 24 September 2011, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aba) named Fazal Ilahi Anweri Sahib among those seated, said that he was the oldest of them and that by the grace of Allah he was mentally completely alert, and drew from this that those present had not reached the age the Holy Quran calls ardhal al-umur. The passage runs from 31:40 to 32:36. Only a machine transcription of the Urdu is held, so nothing here is given as a quotation.
ticollegerabwah.com, general meeting of 28 April 2012The association’s report of its general meeting of 28 April 2012 records that he addressed the meeting on why he had written his books.
ticollegerabwah.com, introductionThe association's introduction records that Talim-ul-Islam College opened at Qadian in 1944 with Hazrat Sahibzada Mirza Nasir Ahmad as Principal, elected (rh) in 1965. It records his farewell to the college in these words: "I have reared this college as my own child and the college will always remain dear to my heart."