THE TWO FESTIVALS OF MUSLIMS
We Muslims belonging to the spiritual family of Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh) and Islam have two festivals, two days of celebrations which
Allah (twt) has given us as moments of joy and as a token of His love and
satisfaction to the sacrifices we happily do for His sake, as per the
fulfilment of His divine commandments. These two moments of joys are the Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha.
The Eid-ul-Fitr
comes after the blessed month of Ramadan, the month of fasting for the sake of
Allah with the intention to reap the harvest of Allah’s proximity and belonging
to Him heart and soul. As for the Eid-ul-Adha,
it is what is known as the greater Eid, the greater celebration as it concludes
the Hajj rites and commemorates the great sacrifice of the Patriarch and
Prophet of Allah, Ibrahim (as) and his devoted son Prophet Ismail (as).
By the grace of Allah, after a month of Ramadan, we
are to celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr,
Insha-Allah, tomorrow. This Eid (Joy)
is of the essence of Allah and reflects the devotion of the faster who
sacrificed himself and his way of life for a whole (lunar) month just for the
sake of Allah, as fasting during this blessed month has as reward Allah
Himself.
THE SUNNAT ALLAH CONCERNING
THE ADVENT OF DIVINE ELECTS
And by the grace of Almighty Allah, Allah has enabled
us (Ahmadi Muslims) to be born Muslims and also belonging to the spiritual
family and identity of the Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) who
came more than 100 years ago with a rise of a new century to bring people from
darkness into light.
It is Sunnat
Allah (the blessed practice of our Lord Almighty, Allah) that whenever the
original divine message is in danger of extinction, that is, when people have
deviated from the right path and has taken their own souls as prisoners and
cast them in the dungeon of unfaith, then Allah, merciful as ever, before
seizing them with His mighty punishment, chooses to send to them, time after
time, era after era someone from Him to bring back the pristine message of Islam,
the pristine divine message.
It is a reality which existed since the dawn of time
and which the Quran highlights that those in power try to manipulate the mass
so that the people listen to what the corrupted divines have to say instead of
the true Messengers of Allah who come to the world with the Ruh-il-Quddus (Holy Spirit) to warn
mankind and to give good news of the approval and pleasure of Allah when those
who come forward embrace the divine light which is offered to them.
If the teachings of Islam as a whole were being
manipulated by the so-called divines and scholars so much so that Allah saw the
need to send the Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), then do you
think that now the people in the Jamaat of the Promised Messiah (as) shall
remain as devoted and pure as when the Ruh-il-Quddus
was still descending on the Promised Messiah (as) when he was yet alive?