With such theological technologies at hand,
the leadership practices sophistry with élan: common folks in the Jamaat have
been hoodwinked into vain desires of Divine nearness by their leaders for too
long. Yet when you question Ahmadis about the Divine connection
of their Khalifa, honest among them will admit: they have no sure knowledge on
it, and they are merely following conjectures within the Jamaat and they never
applied their reasoning power on their beliefs. It is instructive for Ahmadis
to remember the admonition of the Holy Qur’an which provides a simple method to test
the veracity of claims: And
they say, ‘None shall enter Heaven unless he be a Jew or a Christian.’ These
are their vain desires. Say, ‘Produce
your proof, if you truthful.’ [Surah Al Baqarah,
2:112].
Sunday, March 24, 2013
The Divine Favour of Ahmadiyya Khilafat
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Heavenly Signs of Hadhrat Ahmad (as)
One of the most important beliefs among the Muslims is the appearance
of Al Imam Al Mahdi in the
Latter Days. The grand prophecies of the Holy Prophet of Islam (sa) regarding
the appearance of his substitute in the Latter Days also point to the sign of
solar and lunar eclipses. The appearance of the Divinely-ordained soul took
place at the appointed time and the signs of celestial events also fulfilled as
foretold in the holy traditions. Allah the Most High kept his side of the
bargain. Yet, the world in general and the contemporary theologians in
particular, rejected him.
In his Friday Sermon of 22 March 2013, Hadhrat
Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius reflects on the
personal background of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian who was raised to
the august spiritual office of Al Imam
Al Mahdi by Allah the Most High, against the backdrop of the decline of
the fortunes of Muslims in India and their capacity to articulate Islam’s spiritual
appeal in general. In his speech, the Khalifatullah (atba) bears witness to the
sublime truth of Hadhrat Ahmad (as) and further, confirms that his own Divine
Mission in this era is inextricably intertwined with the Divine Mission of the
Promised Massih (as) in the previous era.
Read the Extracts
from the Friday Sermon:
The year 1835 holds a proud place in the human calendar. During that year a child was born in Qadian, an obscure village in northern India. For generations his ancestors had ruled with distinction over the region around Qadian. Prior to his arrival even Islam fell in decline and lost much of its glory. The child who was born was not ordinary. He was intended to bring about a great revolution not only in the realm of the spirit, but also well into the realm of matter. He was born on 13 February 1835 and was named Ghulam Ahmad by his parents and later became famous under the name of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani. He was appointed by God as the Messiah and Mahdi.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Interpreting the Prophecy on Musleh Maoud
In a special speech delivered on the occasion of
the Musleh
Maoud Day on February 20, 2013 Hadhrat
Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius paid glowing
tributes to the grand prophecy revealed to the Promised Massih Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad (as) regarding the birth of an auspicious, blessed, fortunate son who
would be a servant of Islam. Extolling the literal and physical fulfilment of
that great prophecy in the time of the second Khalifa of the Jamaat-e- Ahmadiyya, Hadhrat Mirza
Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad (ra), the Chosen Messenger of Allah of our times
points to the contemporary relevance of this prophecy.
A revelation
of Allah can be realised in many ways and in different eras also. Just as there was the physical fulfilment of this
prophecy in the previous period, the metaphoric and spiritual fulfilment of the
prophecy takes place in this era on 20 February 2004, when
Allah the Most High raised Hadhrat Khalifatullah with the title: “Musleh Maoud”.
Further, drawing upon the principles
of interpretation of numerical values familiar to the great, mystical saints of
Islam, Hadhrat Sahib provides an interesting explanation regarding the fulfilment
of the prophecy in this era on his august personhood, Alhamdulillah.
Read the Extracts from the Sermon:
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Questioning the Violence Against Women
“And when people are
brought together,
And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about,
‘For what crime was she
killed?’
And when books are spread
abroad,”
-The
Holy Qur’an [Ch: 81, v. 8-11]
The great Qur’anic
prophecies regarding the Signs of the Latter Days certainly seem to have come
to fruition in our age. A question to ponder: When the
signs are apparent and obvious, wouldn’t Allah raise His Messenger as well?
As the Qur’an tells us: “There are lessons for
those endowed with reasoning”.
Reflective and
discerning individuals would be awestruck by the stunning, literal fulfilment of
Divine prophecies in our times. Consider this: the single most important fact
of our times is the unprecedented and extraordinary phenomena of globalization.
The great prophecy of the Holy Qur’an “when people are brought together” is
magnificently fulfilled, literally in our times, in several, different ways thanks
to the explosion in communication technologies and transportation mechanisms.
Likewise, no age before ours has witnessed the transnational exchange of books
and ideas as much as we do today: in the age of Internet, the virtual world of
cyberspace fosters an information revolution of unimaginable proportions.
It is also of particular
interest to note that in our times, at a time when even in Muslim societies,
the equality of legal protection offered by Islam to women had been subverted
by the misogynist, traditional interpretations, the assertion of women’s
dignity and rights, identity and choices have begun to gain legitimacy and recognition
in the public sphere. In any case, no age before ours has witnessed as much
concern for the protection and dignity and rights of women and girls as much as
our own age.
Meeting on the heels of
high profile violence cases against women in India and elsewhere that fuelled
global outrage and rising demands for justice, the 57th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women,
March 04- 15, 2013, adopted a forward-looking Agreed Conclusions. The document strongly emphasizes that violence against women
is a human rights violation and calls special attention to the need for women’s
and girls’ safety in public spaces, and for attitudinal changes through
challenging gender stereotypes. It highlights the need to strengthen legal and
policy frameworks, with important provisions on ending impunity, and ensuring
accountability and access to justice, as well as addressing domestic violence.
Reproduced below is extracts
from a Speech delivered on March 08, 2013- International
Women’s Day- by the distinguished Executive Director of UN Women, Madame Michelle
Bachelet on “Gender-Motivated Killings of Women, Including Femicide”:
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