Read the Friday Sermon Below:
Allah is eternal,
unchanging, and perfect in Himself. Changes occur in human beings [and not in
Allah]. When man changes for the better, God reveals Himself to him with a new
manifestation. When man progresses [in spirituality, where he becomes closer to
God], God reveals Himself to him with a higher manifestation. God miraculously manifests
His power and glory when man undergoes a miraculous change. This is the root of
wonders and miracles.
Our Almighty God [Allah] is a most faithful God and He shows marvellous works [His signs and manifestations] to those who are faithful to Him. The world wants to swallow them up and the enemies gnash their teeth at them, but He who is their Friend saves them from all danger and makes them triumphant in all matters. Blessed is he then who holds fast to Allah and says [such believers say]: “We believe in Him. We have recognized Him. He alone is the God of the worlds.”
Doubly blessed is he
who witnesses the era of a Messenger of Allah. After the Holy Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh), someone will never come with the Ruh’il Quddus [Holy Spirit] who
will bring another set of laws, another Quran for the world. Islam is the last
religion, and the Holy Quran is the last law-bearing book, and therefore, this
makes the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) also the last law-bearing prophet and
messenger to the world.
But as long as evil
exists and the world is still full of men, non-law-bearing prophets and
messengers who are the reformers of Islam and humanity will continue to come so
that whenever the essence of the teachings of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) is
trampled, someone will come to revive these teachings and show the truthfulness
of Islam to the world.
As prophesied by the
Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the Last Days will be intense days of trials with
the emergence of Dajjal [Antichrist], as well as the de-Islamization of
the so-called scholars of Islam. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) prophesied
that Muslims would be in name only and would follow the Jews and Christians in
their ways and behaviour! Do you think that Allah will remain inactive and do
nothing to counter the attacks of the Satans who are spreading all over the
world with the aim of exterminating Islam and Tawheed (i.e. the Oneness of
Allah)?
Allah, as is His
practice (Sunnat Allah), will continue to raise up His chosen ones, such
reformers of Islam who will come in the footsteps of the Holy Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh), enlightened by the Holy Spirit (Ruh’il Quddus), i.e. the revelations of
Allah [those which do not carry any law – such revelations which only remind
people of the Quranic commandments].
Similarly, after the
reformers of Islam who came to renew the religion [i.e. Islam] in every
century, Allah, in accordance with His promise, sent the Messiah and Mahdi,
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) to the world to bring people back to the
original teachings of Islam. And today, in our present era, Allah has sent this
humble being as the Messiah of my era as well as Khalifatullah al-Mahdi and has
granted me the noble titles of prophet and messenger (non-law-bearing prophet
and messenger) for the reformation of the world towards Islam. Allah has sent
down His signs to me and shown me mighty signs. There is no god but Him,
neither in the heavens nor on the earth. Whoever does not place his faith in
Him remains deprived of His blessings and lives in confusion.
Alhamdulillah today,
with my advent, Allah has also blessed some of my followers with revelations
from Him to comfort them in their faith. Some have received dreams, visions and
true revelations. And Alhamdulillah, above all these revelations, the
revelations that a Messenger of Allah, a representative of Allah, receives are
clear and bright as the day, like a powerful sun. Through His manifestations
and His signs, we have seen how powerful and eternal our Allah is; we have
indeed witnessed many of His wonderful powers. The truth is that there is
nothing impossible for Him, except that which goes against His own promise and
His own Book.
So what I advise you is
that when you stand up to pray, you, as believers, must believe that your God
[Allah] is Almighty. Then your prayers will be accepted and you will witness
the wonders of His power. What I am telling you is based on my personal
experience and not on hearsay.
Allah is the Master of
everything. But the Book of Allah has established a certain rule regarding
prayer: He [Allah] treats a person as a friend out of His infinite mercy.
Sometimes Allah does what the person asks, as He said in the Qur’an: “Call upon Me and I will answer you” (Ghafir
40:61) and sometimes He prefers that His will prevail in certain situations, as
He says: “We will test you a little with fear
and hunger...” (Al-Baqara 2:156) This is how He can react to a
person according to his prayers to increase his certainty in Him and sometimes
He can make His will prevail and elevate the rank of that person out of love
for him or He [Allah] makes him advance on His paths of light.
Our Allah also has
infinite wonders, but only those who return to Him [who return to Him to belong
only to Him] with truth and strength of soul can witness these wonders. He does
not reveal His wonders to those who do not believe in His powers and are not
loyal to Him. Unfortunately, although man has been given intelligence and free
will by Allah, it is he (man) who does not always know how to distinguish
between truth and falsehood, and he still does not know that Allah alone is his
Lord and God. Truly our God, our Allah is our true Paradise, He is our true
well-being. Our greatest joys are found in Him alone. He is such a treasure
that is worth possessing even if we have to sacrifice our lives to acquire it.
He is such a jewel that is worth buying; even if we lose everything we possess,
just to have Him [i.e., Allah].
If you become for
Allah, then be assured that Allah will be for you. He will keep you awake
[spiritually] and watch over you while you sleep. As a believer, a person may
let his guard down, but if he has the help of Allah with him, if he is one of
those servants who are close to Allah, then it is Allah Who will always have
His gaze fixed on him, will repel his enemies and will avert all their plots
[i.e., the plots of the enemies of His servants].
O people, you do not
know the true powers that Allah alone possesses. If you knew this, if you
really knew your Lord, then you would never turn away from Him and would never
worry about the problems of this world. You would not worry about this temporary
world. He who has a treasure does not cry at the loss of a single cent (penny)
as if he would die if he lost that cent (penny). If you knew that Allah alone
is sufficient for you, that He suffices for all your needs, then you would
never lose your temper for this world. Allah is indeed your real treasure, a
precious treasure; so know [seek to know] His value. He is your helper at every
stage of your life. You or your worldly plans are nothing without Him.
Therefore, I advise you not to follow other nations who depend only on material
means and where they have forgotten God [Allah] and have allowed themselves to
be dominated by their passions.
You, the believers,
must place your faith in Allah alone. Remember that the disbelievers put their
faith in material means and therefore they do not have the help of Allah with
them. Those who are attached to this earth only are spiritually dead. They are
concerned only with the affairs of this world and have forgotten Allah; they
have forgotten that one day they will have to return to that same Creator whom
they have ignored or forgotten throughout their lives.
As a human being and
Khalifatullah, I do not forbid you from using material means within proper
limits. I forbid you from becoming slaves to these material means, as other
nations have done, where they have completely ignored Allah and have become
ungrateful to Him for all the favours He has bestowed upon them.
So show your gratitude
to Allah, your Lord, and do not be deceived in your faith. If you slip and
choose this temporary world over Allah and the Hereafter, then you will be the
greatest loser. My duty is to advise you and warn you, and only the Ulul-al-Baab
[those endowed with true intelligence] will benefit from my advice. Finally, I
place my trust in Allah. Hasbun-Allah wa nimal
Wakeel (Allah is sufficient for us and He is the best provider of
our affairs) [Al-Imran 3:174]. Ameen, Summa Ameen, Ya Rabbal Aalameen.