Hold Tight to Allah's Rope to be Able to Bring Whole World under Peace-Flag of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.)

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Peace be on you.

‘And hold fast, all together, by the rope of Allah and be not divided; and remember the favour of Allah which He bestowed upon you when you were enemies and He united your hearts in love, so that by His grace you became as brothers; and you were on the brink of a pit of fire and He saved you from it. Thus does Allah explain to you His commandments that you may be guided. And let there be among you a body of men who should invite to goodness, and enjoin equity and forbid evil. And it is they who shall prosper.’ (Surah Ale Imran, verses 104 – 105)
‘Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in a way that is best. Surely, thy Lord knows best who has strayed from His way; and He knows those who are rightly guided.’ (Surah Al Nahl, verse 126)

[Ref: alislam.org/quran]


With respect to recent inauguration of second Ahmadiyya Mosque in Spain (600+ capacity) in the light of above verses of Holy Quran, Hadhrat Khalifah tul Messiah V (may Allah help him) explained how to get strength internally and be able to take the Divine Message to others effectively. He also mentioned the following words of Hadhrat Promised Messiah (upon whom be peace) :

At the time our Community is in great need of mosques. [A mosque] is a house of God. In which ever town or village our mosque is built, consider that the foundation for the progress of the Community has been laid [there]. If there is a town or a village with very few or no Muslims and progress of Islam is required there, a mosque should be built there. God would Himself attract Muslims to it. However, the condition is that the mosque is built with sincerity of intent and is raised merely for the sake of God. Providing there is no element of self-centred motives or any evil, God would bless it.

Belief in God requires to honour His house (the mosque). It will lead to pay attention to the rights of people and mutual love. The Promised Messiah was concerned that example set by his Companions should be of very high standards.

People of Community should all get together and offer congregational Prayer in this mosque. There is a lot of blessing in congregational Prayer and accord. Dispersion creates discord while this is a time to greatly enhance unity and accord. Trivial matters which are cause of discord should be disregarded/overlooked.

There are lessons of righteousness in life-events of these Companions. May Allah bless them. Their progenies should follow them in serving Islam to regain its glory.



TO BRING THE WORLD UNDER THE FLAG OF HOLY PROPHET (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) IT REQUIRES

O—To pay rights of worship of Allah by seeking His help.
O—To convey His Message with focused service through unity among all kind of office-bearers and commons of the Community.
O—To remember that the beauty of the mosque is useful when souls of visitors are pure.
O—To make harmony in speech and deeds.
O—To create mutual love and avoid discords for the pleasure of Allah.
O—To practice the directions of Imam of the age and his Khalifah to be thankful to the blessings of Allah.
O—To hold tight to Hablullah (The Rope of Allah); Holy Quran, Holy Prophet (s.a.w.), his ardent devotee Promised Messiah (a.s.) and his Khilafat.
O—To understand that missing any of these links of Rope of Allah will amount to motion towards pit of Fire.



MANY IN WEST ARE DENYING GOD – EXCEPTIONS – GUESTS IN RECEPTION IN VALENCIA – LESSONS
A reception was hosted for local dignitaries, lawyers, politicians, members of parliament and neighbours of newly built mosque in Valencia. Some of neighbours were those who had opposed the making of this mosque due to certain fears. Now they are pleased. The Holy Khalifah mentioned the rights of neigbours in his address.


In this age, many people deny God but there are people who are worried about the situation. The Speaker of the Parliament of Valencia came to reception with high regards to meet Holy Khailfah, he mentioned his concern that that people are drifting away from religion in general. A lady guest said that the Holy Khalifah explained the teaching of Islam in best. She saidsaid she has returned to way. She said she had returned to the religion of her forefathers--Islam. There were some atheist guests who said they learned that day.


Ahmadiyya Community’s 24-hours, 7-days-a-week TV channel (Muslim Television Ahmadiyya, MTAi, wwwDOTmtaDOTtv) has recorded the comments of the guests at the reception in Valencia.


There are seekers, in Europe, whose sincere quest about the religion of their forefathers eventually brought them into the Community of Promised Messiah where they found spiritual peace.


In this regard the Community needs to do efforts. But first bring changes in selves. The foremost requirement is purity-in-intention which, according to Promised Messiah, should be the basic requirement in building mosques, when he said progress of Islam was associated with mosque.


There is need to understand how to utilize the awareness of the people for the sake of Allah.



HOW TO GET BENEFIT FROM THE AWARENESS

1) ROLE OF MISSIONARIES (Mubal’legheen and Murab’biyan)
= They are sent by the Holy Khalifah of the time, as his representatives, for the Conveying of Message and for the training of the local Communities.
= Both assignments require high standard of forebearance.
= They have to attain high standards of obedience and guide others to do so.
= Their words and deeds should be in harmony.
= If they face wrong behaviour from some people, they should immediately pray and do Istighfar and remind themselves that they are devotees, they have to serve with high aim, they have to bring the world under the flag of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) and they have to keep in mind ‘al izato lillah’ i.e. all honour is for Allah.
= They have to keep themselves and others safe from falling into pit of Fire. It requires sacrifice.


2) ROLE OF THE OFFICE-HOLDERS
= They have pay right of trust.
= They should understand that ranks are for service. Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said: Chief of the people is their servant.
= Their words and deeds should not contradict.
= Their morals and talks should be best.
= In addition to above, their apparent condition should be righteous too so that they become among those who estanlish virtues and fobid evil.
= Self checks, mutual good conduct and unity should be observed.
= They should make sure that Missionaries (as representatives of Khalifah of time) are respected. [Missionaries should not get it as their personal, they should feel more humbleness.]



3) ROLE OF COMMUNITY
= They should keep mutual accord and harmony, practice what God and Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said. Enhance standards of righteousness as Promised Messiah (a.s.) explained and submitting to what the Khalifah of the time says.
= They should respect office-holders.
= They should practice high morals at home and outside.
= Their discharging the responsibilities will save them from pit of Fire.



4) TO CONVEY MESSAGE IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY – HOW TO CONVEY THE MESSAGE?
Allah has asked believers to follow Holy Prophet (s.a.w.). They should follow him in conveying Divine Message to the world. All missionaries, office-holders and general believers should take part in it. Allah has commanded to convey His message with ‘hikmah’. In the light of meanings of this word, following are important to observe:

== It is essential to acquire knowledge of religion; Holy Quran and commentaries.
== Develop strong arguments.
== Learn supportive arguments from Sayings of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.).
== Learn strong arguments to defend Islam and Holy Prophet (s.a.w.).
== Observe ‘ADAL’ Justice in discussion; avoid fueds.
== Learn Treasure of Knowledge written by Promised Messiah (a.s.) and use it with kindness and patience; it softens hearts.
== Say things which stop others (like fanatic clergies, atheists) from nonsense.
== Present teachings of Islam according to understanding of people. [as in above mentioned reception.]
== When public awareness is there, utilize it.
== Hikma also requires that, matter should be presented with truth, clarity and no lie. Islam is truth, Knowledge and Justice. There are no loose ends in it.
== Conveyers’ daily life should be based on knowledge, patience and justice. They should understand the nature of others. They shoud say, what soften hearts. Only then speech will be effective…….
== About ‘hikmah’ Promised Messiah said that advice should be with speech. When something is said in a certain mode, it can make a person your friend and when said in another mode, it can make him your enemy.


WORDS OF CAUTION
The Holy Khalifah cautioned all Community:
O-- The vast coverage of events in media should not make them over joyed.
O-- Growing Communities make checks of themselves, materialize their plans and do not rest until achieve the goals.
O-- They do not search what are the comments of others agaisnt them.
O-- They uphold their pledge of allegiance made with Imam of age that they shall give precedence to their faith over worldy life.
O-- They do not loose focus and aim, as doing so might jeopardize their physical life and the life in Herafter.
O-- They understand that practicing these matters and ending all discords will result in spiritual revolution.


REFERENCE: Friday sermon, April 5 2013 by Hadhrat Khalifah tul Messiah v (may Allah help him), Valencia, Spain, alislam.org