Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra), Khalifatul Masih II, had a grand plan for the propagation of Islam in the West.
With the mission established and settled in London, it was not merely seen as a goal achieved. Rather, the London Mission was given the task of exploring new avenues of establishing mission houses in other countries of the Western world. The London mission turned into an academy where missionaries would stay, be trained in preaching the message of the One God to the western minds and then sent off to some part of the West or other continents to establish the Ahmadiyya Muslim Missions.
Belgium had been the bedrock of movements that shifted the focus from religion to materialism. But the zealous Ahmadi missionaries, inspired by their Imam, would leave no stone unturned; especially the ones that seemed unmovable.
Hence, Belgium was explored for such possibilities.
A missionary, Malik Ataur Rahman visited Belgium in 1948 and assessed the situation for founding an Ahmadiyya mission. He was interviewed by several newspapers of Belgium, one of which was Le Phare Dimanche. It published the news on 19 December 1948 under the title L'Islam Envahit L'Europe! (Islam Invades Europe!)
It was in 1981, when Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad (rh), Khalifatul Masih III, sent Saleh Muhammad Khan as the first missionary to Belgium who, after his arrival in February 1981, started preaching the message of Islam Ahmadiyyat to the Belgian nation.
He purchased a building in Dilbeek, in the outskirts of Brussels in 1985. Chaudhry Hameedullah (then Wakil-e-Ala, Tahrik-e-Jadid) and Hidayatullah Bangvi oversaw the planning and purchase. This building functions to this day as the mission house of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Belgium.
Syed Naseer Ahmad took charge of the Belgium mission from Saleh Muhammad Khan in 1987. Abdul Hakim Akmal and Hamid Karim from Holland would occasionally visit Belgium and advise on various matters regarding missionary activity.
Abdul Ghany Jahangir Khan was appointed as missionary-in-charge of Belgium in January 1989 and remained there in this capacity until February 1990. During this time, the dairy factory adjacent to the mission house (that was part of the building when purchased) was renovated and formally converted into a mosque. Abdul Ghany Jahangir Khan was replaced by Hafiz Ehsan Secunder as a missionary to Belgium.
In November 1990, Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh), Khalifatul Masih IV, appointed Captain Shamim Khalid to take charge of the mission in Belgium. Under the guidance of Huzoor (rh), he energised the tabligh activities of the Jamaat, and many individuals accepted Ahmadiyyat.
On 15 November 1992, the first ever Jalsa Salana of Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Belgium was held at the Baitus Salam mission house in Dilbeek.
