Everyone is waiting for the Savior. But what if, when he comes, he is nothing like what they expected? Here are five unexpected qualities of the Mahdi that may determine whether people recognize him—or reject him.

What if the prison the prophets warned of was not made of walls? Beginning with Muhammad’s enigmatic description of the world as “a prison for the believer,” this article explores an ancient idea of captivity—and a contemporary promise of liberation centered on the Riser, Aba Al-Sadiq.

“If God exists, and if He is a Good God, then why is there so much suffering in the world?” Nearly everyone has encountered this question at some point in their life. The answer is simpler than it may seem.

A newly published investigation examines the role of Syed Ali Akhbari in the ongoing controversy surrounding the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL). The article alleges that Akhbari has moved beyond online criticism to targeted harassment, intimidation, and coordinated campaigns against members of the faith, including public confrontations, personal threats, and inflammatory social media activity.

The overall assessment of this article indicates that the actions of the police during the raid follow a pattern employed by law enforcement for disproportionate use of force when raiding small religious communities, as the publication by scholars Susan J. Palmer and Stuart A. Wright in “Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious Communities” (Oxford University Press, 2016) sought to document.

It's been a month since the raid which had taken place at the Headquarters of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light in the city of Crewe, England. Today, Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq made a Facebook post regarding the appearance of three professors who travelled to the city of Crewe to visit members of the community and to hear directly from them the events of the raid and their personal experiences.

The Qur’anic command to love the Prophet’s family is not a minor teaching, it is a divine trust. To fast while turning away from the suffering of the Prophet’s Family and to dismiss their oppression with slogans like “history is complicated,” such a fast may be recorded on the calendar, but in the sight of God it is stripped of light, because it is built on a refusal to acknowledge injustice against those whom He commanded us to honour.

The Divine Just State magazine sat with Zahra Shekariyan Asl, a qualified and published nurse from Iran, to get details of her experiences and struggles, including the recent disappearance of her brother, Mohammadreza Shekariyan Asl, who has not been missing since the 23rd of September.

History was made on March 13th 2026, 03.13.2026, when a protest organised by the members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light took the Egyptian embassies around the world by storm in a humiliating exposure of their abuses of basic Human Rights according to Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Egypt is a signatory to since the 10th of December 1948.

A village girl turned spiritual matriarch, Lady Layla’s trials, faith, and devotion forged a legacy now revered.

A solemn sermon, a prophecy of Persia’s fall—and people crushed in its wake.

Arrests, torture claims, and a global campaign: Egypt faces mounting pressure over jailed minority believers.

How a peaceful religious march became a target of misinformation and far-right outrage.

An eyewitness recalls King Abdullah’s death—and the prophecy that began unfolding after.

Every religion has its sacred days. This festival may be the most consequential.

On November 4, 2025, The Divine Just State magazine sat down with Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq for a thirty-minute conversation. It was an unusually candid exchange, in which we posed the kinds of questions that newcomers to the message are likely asking themselves but rarely see addressed plainly. And these are his answers.

A reflective exploration of Día de los Muertos, tracing its ancient Indigenous roots, its fusion with Catholicism, and its deep spiritual parallels with Egyptian, Islamic, Jewish and Christian views of death and remembrance.

A landmark year of global attention marked the tenth anniversary of AROPL—and its impact is still unfolding.

2025 has been the most successful year for the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light's social media channels. In this yearly review of the religions media wing - spearheaded by AROPL studios - we take a look at the people that brought the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light to hundreds of millions of homes in 2025.

Hundreds of believers have joined the community around Aba Al-Sadiq. This article tells the story of them walking through the doors of the Holy Basilica for the first time.