Liwa-e-Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya

The year 1939 marked the completion of 50 years since the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s establishment and 25 years of the second Khilafat. 

On the occasion of Jalsa Salana Qadian 1939, the Khilafat Jubilee was celebrated. To mark this occasion, the Liwa-e-Ahmadiyyat was prepared and it was hoisted for the first time on 28 December 1939.

Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya had also prepared Liwa-e-Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya.

On the same day, after hoisting the Liwa-e-Ahmadiyyat, Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra), Khalifatul Masih II, hoisted the Liwa-e-Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya as well.

Liwa-e-Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya is 18 feet long and 9 feet wide. It consists of Liwa-e-Ahmadiyyat on the upper left, and thirteen black and while stripes. 

HAZRAT KHALIFATUL-MASIH IIRA MOMENTS AFTER HOISTING THE LIWA-E-AHMADIYYAT AND THE KHUDDAM FLAG WHICH CAN BE SEEN ON THE LEFT - QADIAN 1939

History

Since Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya is an auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the top left corner of its flag bears the same symbols as the Liwae-Ahmadiyyat (a full moon, Minaratul Masih and a crescent moon). The black and white stripes on the flag represent the centuries of spiritual ascent and decline of the Muslim Ummah.

JALSA SALANA 1939

The Liwa-e-khuddam was to be hoisted at the second Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Ijtema on the 25th of December 1939. However, Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih IIra directed that until the Liwa-e-Ahmadiyyat was not hoisted no auxiliary’s flag should be hoisted. Therefore, it was on the 28th of December 1939, right after the flag of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was hoisted for the first time, that Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih IIra also hoisted the Khuddam flag. On this occasion a pledge was recited, the words of which were:

“I pledge that I shall sacrifice my life, wealth, time and honour and shall uphold the honour of this truth, the flag as a physical representation of which at this moment is being hoisted by Huzoor, and the symbol of all the virtues which Ahmadiyyat seeks to spread and establish; and the sign of all the morals which Huzoor wishes to create in Khuddam through Khuddamul Ahmadiyya. And I shall make every possible effort that this flag flies higher than all other flags of the world and it never has to witness defeat.”