In his Friday Sermon of 29 May 2015, Mirza
Masroor Ahmad Sahib stated that every day the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is witnessing
many signs and favours and he cited with arrogance that in Germany, the Lajna
and Ansar had recently bought a five-storey building for € 1.7 million, and
affirms that this was a divine support in favour of (man-elected) Khilafat.
If money and material progress
is really divine support in favour of Ahmadiyya man-elected Khilafat, then the Pope and the
Christian World as well as the other ancient religions, including the other
non-Ahmadi Muslims shall be doubly and even trebly jubilant in stating that it
is them who have divine support because they are far more advanced in both
number and wealth than the Ahmadiyya Community worldwide. According to them,
despite the man-made idols which they (the other religions) cherish, and the
closing of the door of prophethood (for the Muslims), they are well-off and are
confident that they have divine support for them and their beliefs.
If the Khalifat-ul-Massih
is measuring progress in terms of material possessions instead of spiritual
growth (and/or declination) then he is taking an absolutely wrong route.
Verily, the worst fears of both Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) and Hazrat Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad (as) were that a time shall come when Islam will be so rich in material
means that people will give that more importance and be blinded by them rather
than staying true to the true divinely-sent faith. They knew that victory shall
come for their followers and they did not worry for their current meagre
financial situations for they knew also that those empty treasuries shall be
filled one day. What they feared is the corruption and fraud that shall ensued
after the large amount of money come to ornate the treasury of the community
(Islam as a whole, and the Jamaat Ahmadiyya in particular).
Food
for thought: The more there is
material growth within a community, be it secular or spiritual, the more there
is degradation. If the moral and spiritual values of the people are not
secured, the spiritual community falls prey to the allures of the Satan, and
the common people, as well as the high priests and heads fall prey to the lust
for temporal power and authority.