Strive hard—O valiant ones!—
so that the Faith may gain
strength,
And freshness
and elegance may flourish
in the garden
of Islam.
Friends!
Should you have compassion for the
plight of Islam,
You will be—in the eyes of God—akin
to
the Companions of the Prophet.
Hypocrisy and discord will be
removed from the ignorant;
Perfect harmony, brotherhood, and friendship will be
cultivated.
So rise up to
strive, for surely from God’s court,
Assistance
will appear for the helpers of Islam.
Should any sympathy for the honour
of the Faith
burn in you this day—
I swear by
Allah—
ye shall
likewise attain dignity and honour.
Should ye extend forth the hand of
generosity
for the victory of Islam,
Likewise shall ye behold
the sudden manifestation of the Hand of Power.
Lavish spending in His way
left no one a pauper;
God Himself
is the Helper
if you
cultivate the resolve.
O Friends!
Spend the fleeting days of your
life in serving the Faith;
For, in the
final hour,
death comes
with a hundred regrets.
Fulfill the needs of the Faith,
so that your needs be fulfilled—
In the face of hundreds of
disappointments, pains, and sufferings,
You will experience Divine mercy.
Look at how the Ansar [Helpers]
of the Prophet (sa) worked
To realize that serving the Faith generates a fountain
of wealth.
Strive with your heart and soul
that some service be rendered by
you;
If you
produce this sweet sherbet,
you will
attain everlasting life.
The reward of the service will be
conferred upon you freely—
O brother!—otherwise,
This is the
heavenly decree
That will
certainly be fulfilled.
I see that it is the will of God—the
Almighty and Holy—
That Islam arise, once again, to its power and glory.
O my Benevolent God!
Shower abundant graces upon the
one
who is a helper of the Faith,
And if a calamity befalls, do avert it.
O God, the All-Powerful!
Keep him so content,
That his
every situation and circumstance
Manifest into
Paradise.
Alas!
My people pay no heed to my
wailing and crying;
I admonish
them in every way—
would they
but take heed!
I do not believe that they will
open their eyes,
Until they cultivate righteousness, piety, and fear of
God.
They deem me to be a deceiver,
liar, and worse than disbelievers.
I cannot understand why they hate the light of God.
Are you amazed—
O ye heedless and careless of the
Faith!—
That amidst this darkness,
a fountain of life sprung forth from God?
Why should anyone be surprised
that
A remover of heedlessness has been
raised
for those intoxicated with slumber?
O my people!
Have you forgotten the Ahadith of the
Prophet of Allah,
That a Reformer of the Ummah would
be raised
At the head of every century?'
---A poem by Al Imam Al Mahdi Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) of Qadian [1835-1908], A’ina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, published in 1893.