The Promised Revival -- To Bring Faith Back Even If It Had Gone To Pleiades (i.e. weakened).

Peace be on you…When individuals’ moral strenghthens or weaknesses spread to others community improves or gets corrupted. The role of environment is very important in growth or decline of moral and spiritual practices. It is like effect of soil, climate and other factors on a seed.


Problems in community affect individuals. Communal awareness is very important. Ahmadiyya Jama'at should use various means to check communal weaknesses, according to Hazrat Musleh Mo'ud (r.a.) Moud (r.a.) [the 2nd Khalifatul Messiah] . The first means is to understand the teaching and to practice it.


If a teaching is wrongly understood, wrong practices are started. Holy Quran is perfect Book but yet there are weaknesses in common Muslims. The reason is that they stopped pondering the Book and if previous and current scholars wrongly understood some creed they followed it. Moreover, they were affected by environment, other religions and other cultures.


It is benevolence of Allah the Exalted that we are in the Jama'at of Hazrat Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) and these wrong, old unwisdom traditions and commentaries cannot have effect on us and should not be so. But Jama'at have to keep vigilance because various new people are joining and sometimes they explain things according to their personal understanding. Our new Ahmadiyya scholars have to explain matters in accordance with teachings of Khilafat and Jama'at.


We are, in general, free of wrong ideas by the grace of Allah the Exalted but we need to be vigilant to keep ourselves safe from any mistakes. One way of doing so is to keep mistakes of non-Ahmadis in view. Doing so will enable us to avoid those weaknesses to enter in our community. We should also keep eye on the communal defects of people living around us who believe in any religion or not, who believe in God or not and also we should keep in view the national defects of neighboring countries and global village.


Children get effects from surrounding, friends, schools, media and they do not want to hear parents’ advice. Parents are busy too and distant is increasing. They oppress children, children do not respect them. These are communal problems and must be checked. The Western society is moving towards destruction on the name of freedom. Some Ahmadis are drifting with this flow. Before it spread and become our communal problem, and we become ignorant again after we have believed Hazrat Promised Messiah (a.s.), we need to increase our efforts to avoid these things. All parts of systems of Jama'at Ahmadiyya should join in thinking, make plans and make effort immediately before weaknesses of West enter in our community. We have promised to revive morals and spirituality of the world. We must have goodness in us and avoid evil.


We must be regular in offering five daily Prayers. Imam appointed by God has come, if someone do not believe him, we do not offer Prayer behind him. In general our Jama'at have own centers and mosques to offer Salaat in congregation. Going to mosques mean we have to go there to end weaknesses, it is different than others’ going. By considering our environment, we need to make vast plans to proper offering of Salaat by us and our children.


Today world is going away from God and religion. We need to continue to ponder how weaknesses came in other Muslims and they lost the path and how Ahmadiyya Muslims can avoid those mistakes. After accepting Hazrat Promised Messiah (on whom be peace), it is extremely essential to know his teaching and practice it. We must not flow with the flood of weaknesses of environment; our duty is to mould the circumstances according to our teaching. We need to strengthen the connection with Khilafat. In this era, Allah the Exalted have provided us MTA [Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (mta.tv)] and website of Jama'at [alislam.org], it is important to stay connected with these too, instead of watching absurdities. With these means [sites] we get real Islamic and Quranic teaching and we learn knowledge and wisdom of Hazrat Promised Messiah (on whom be peace); stay connected.


Allah is the Maker of human brain, He knows that if human does not make habit of using brain for thinking, it becomes weak. He made Quran perfect but left one part of each commandments for human to ponder at. He mentioned some principles very clearly but there are things which need to be reflected at, so that human should search by himself to keep brain safe from being useless. That is why Holy Quran is sent in such words and sentences that by pondering at them, one finds wisdom and depth. Hazrat Promised Messiah (a.s.) has explained priciples to find new points, which we should keep in view. If we keep staying with old commentaries like other Muslims do, the points of wisdom will not become manifest, to which Hazrat Promised Messiah (a.s.) has guided us. Holy Quran is a perfect Book, it has everything. Guidance comes to those who ponder and practice all of it, not some part of it. Holy Quran teaches about national and individual virtues and evils. In this Book, Allah the Exalted has announced about sending Carrier of Message for Aakhareen [latter ones] to teach them, and to enhance their thoughts, and to show them light and to help them understand Holy Quran. Those who do not ponder deny the one sent by God the Exalted, they are bringing bad name to Islam by wrongly explaining it instead of showing excellences of Holy Quran to world. Thus we should learn from mistakes of others.


Hazrat Khalifatul Messiah (may Allah be his Helper) prayed: By understanding the spirit of Islam, may we remove each evil before it become communal evil and make each virtue communal and establish it in whole Jama'at. May we always develop such environment and transfer it to our generation, in which evils do not spread, virtues and excellences develop. May Allah the Exalted enable us to do so.

Reference: Based on Friday sermon, February 13, 2015 by Hazrat Khalifatul Messiah (a.t.), alislam.org and mta.tv