Al Hakam (Arabic: الحكم, romanized: al-ḥakam, IPA: [æl ħakam], literally "The Arbiter") is an English-language, Islamic newspaper, published weekly by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at.
[2][4] Talking about how Al Hakam began, he states:In August 1897, Henry Martyn Clark filed a lawsuit against the Promised Messiah.
[4][6]Sheikh Yaqub Ali Irfani thus began the weekly Urdu[7] Al Hakam newspaper, with the first issue being published on 8 October 1897.
Dr Spencer Lavan of McGill University in Montreal noted, The creation of Al Hakam... helped bridge the information gap...
The service it was able to render, which Al Badr was also able to in the later years of the Promised Messiah's life, cannot be attained by any other newspaper, even if millions of rupees are spent in its pursuit.
Al Hakam would also contain, what Ahmadis considered, the latest divine revelations, dreams and visions to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
[9] Al Hakam was relaunched on 23 March 2018 as an English-language newspaper by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, during his Friday sermon.
It will be printed in a small quantity, however, immediately after this Friday Sermon it will be available on the internet on www.alhakam.org Similarly, there will be an app called “Al Hakam” for mobile phones and tablets from which one will be able to easily download the newspaper and read it.
[11]Al Hakam publishes the official English translation of the weekly sermons of Khalifatul Masih, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as well as exclusive interviews with him.