2004 Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih V (atba) Address at the 32nd MKA UK Ijtema

Published on Feb 16 2009 

With the grace of Allah, many successful programmes and excellent events have taken place according to Sadr Sahib’s report. Many of you took part in the academic competitions, listened to Tarbiyatti speeches and took part in the sports competitions. Not only did you increase your knowledge and your spiritual condition, but you also took care of your physical health (through the sports competitions).

At the time when Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya was established by Hadhrat Musleh Maud  through his great foresight and as he has written in his books, that for the continuing advancement of the Jama’at, it is necessary that young people should be involved in Jama’at activities and that women, older members and children should also be involved. The Jama’at can then advance morally, advance in behaviour, in fear of Allah and in prayer.
 
 
 
 
 
In the world we live in today, there are innumerable organisations which help people or some which help people in the same profession by helping experts in that field through programmes that are beneficial to them. Some organisations aim to raise the standard of education. Other organisations help businessmen improve their businesses and help in their expansion. Some organisations safeguard the rights of workers and make sure they are granted these rights.
 
None of these organisations’ final aim is to take people toward Allah and to make them act out of fear of Allah. All of them have personal interests and they work for these interests. Even if someone is performing good deeds, with good intent, it gradually becomes mixed in with their own self-interest and inclinations. Some change these organisations so that they personally benefit as there is no spirituality in them. Since there is no need to acquire Allah and to aim for His pleasure, then what happens is that worldly interests come to the fore. Like I have already mentioned, those who present themselves in the guise of helping humanity through their organisations do so only to gain plaudits. If you look inside their hearts you will see their true worldly interests.
 
In contrast the aim of Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, the aim of Jama’at-e-Ahmadiyya and the aim of any auxiliary organisation of the Jama’at is to create the fear of Allah in their members.
 
These Ijtemas serve the purpose of increasing knowledge and also the spiritual and physical conditions of Khuddam. However, the purpose of the sports competitions is to make Khuddam physically stronger so that they can serve their religion better. Hadhrat Musleh Maud  who established these auxiliary organisations has stated that our Jama’at should increase in good deeds, fear of Allah, prayer, honesty, truthfulness and justice, so much so that not only their own members but people outside the Jama’at should recognise them. He said that in order to fulfil this purpose had he established Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, Ansarullah and Lajna Imaillah.
 
The purpose of all these organisations is not only that you establish piety in yourself but to try to establish piety in others and until cruelty, brutality, dishonesty are completely eliminated and until every person - rich or poor, young or old - does not feel this responsibility, that not only is it his purpose to establish righteousness and justice in himself but to try to establish it in others, even if they are office bearers in the Jama’at. Unless this happens repeatedly, our Jama’at cannot establish a good example in front of our own members and people outside the Jama’at.
 
These were the purposes in the mind of Hadhrat Musleh Maud  that if the Jama’at is to progress and if it is to achieve the aim for which Hadhrat Masih-e-Maud appeared, we will have to establish change in our Khuddam. Our young men have to establish change in themselves and in our children and in turn, our children have to establish change in themselves. We have to establish change in our elderly and establish change in our women, and only then can we will be seen to be truthful in our claim that we will eliminate injustice and cruelty from this world. Only then will we be kind to our relatives as Allah instructs us by starting to think along these lines. Through this we will fulfil the rights of our parents and the rights of our wives and children. We can fulfil the rights of those who are subordinate to us and those who are our superiors in office.
 
Some subordinates can be cruel to their superiors in office. They are cruel because if their superiors in office have disciplined them for good reason or have reprimanded them for breaking the rules then they spread dissent and speak against him among their colleagues or create a group against him or if they get a chance, file complaints either true or false, against him to their higher officers. This can happen either in the Jama’at or the outside world.
 
 
 
 
In the same way subordinates are sometimes treated with cruelty which crosses limits, becomes extreme in nature and also crosses the limits of their authority. This creates enmities against ones’ subordinates and against ones colleagues. It causes rumour mongering and malice in the hearts against others which is never ending.
 
These issues are found all over the world and since Ahmadis live in this society, they cannot avoid being affected somewhat by it. Some increase in distrust so much that if someone advises them with good intent, they question his motives. There are innumerable misdeeds like this which come from uncontrolled cruelty such as finding faults in people, gaining amusement at the expense of others, thinking of oneself as better, excessive pride in the superiority and strength of one's family and jealousy of others. These are all types of dishonesty.
 
Some people increase greatly in this dishonesty. For example passing on something someone said but not in its true form, or twisting it into something else and then passing it on. These are all forms of dishonesty.
 
Therefore we should always try to create honesty in our Khuddam and do so at a national level. This is an important and fundamental issue which will allow us to progress in stages rapidly and attain a higher level. Every young man of ours who is in employment or is in business should establish the highest levels of honesty. He should fulfil his obligations with integrity. No superior in office, no subordinate and no business partner should be given the excuse to say that a young Ahmadi is being dishonest. Morally you should be known in such a manner that people should remark that a person with such principles cannot be dishonest. Our moral values should be such that because of the reputation that you have established, your business will become successful and in employment you will get better opportunities.
 
There are those with whom when one talks it is impossible to tell whether what they are saying is true or not. This illness has become so common that to save young men and children from it will require a special undertaking. If there is something untruthful even whilst telling a joke, it is indeed a lie. I have spoken on this many a time but they still think of it as nothing but “telling a joke”. Some people make prank phone calls and some send prank emails and occasionally because of pranks like these, people face difficulties and on some occasions even loss of life. Some become so used to these things and enjoy doing them so much that that they don’t even understand the dangers of doing so.
 
Some people, so as not to face the displeasure of others, do not tell the truth. In the young, when there are marital difficulties, it is common to indulge in untruths. Instead of this, if we remember that to lie is a sin and to tell an untruth is a great crime. If there is good in one’s heart, then just thinking about the fact that lying is such a great sin would make him tremble before he did so. Allah has mentioned idol worship and lying together.
 
Every Ahmadi, whether young or old, should abstain from lying. Young men and children should be especially targeted that even if they have a jot of untruth in them, they should throw it out and completely discard it.
 
An Ahmadi Khadim and Tifl should always remember that he should be recognised for the fact that that he doesn’t lie. That he doesn’t say things that are untrue.

The Holy Prophet  has said that hypocrites can be recognised by the fact that they lie and thus how can it even be that an Ahmadi whether young or old be a hypocrite? This is why you should make an effort to remove lying from your own selves.

A saying of the Holy Prophet  mentions that if four things are found in a person he is a pure hypocrite and that if even one of these things is found in a person then he has an element of hypocrisy in him until he leaves it. Firstly when he talks he lies, and secondly when he makes an agreement he commits treachery (if you do not fulfil agreements it is a betrayal of trust and it creates untruth). Thirdly, when he makes a promise he breaks it (people make promises in minor things and in business and do not fulfil them). The fourth is that when he argues he uses foul language.

 

 

These are also all related to untruth. Many Ahmadis take part in business and they should remember that success in business comes from Allah and if you do believe that success comes from Allah alone, then nothing can be gained from your cunning or guile and it cannot help you. So you must always work hard and ask for the grace of Allah through prayers. If you adhere to telling the truth in business and fulfil your agreements, then Allah will bestow His grace according to His promise.

The second point (in the hadith) relates to making promises. If you do not fulfil your promises, that too is an untruth. Any promise that you make, no matter whom you make it to, you should fulfil it.

For example, Atfal and Khuddam study in schools and colleges and many of them have to make promises. They make promises to their friends, to their brothers and to their sisters. Whenever you make a promise fulfil it and if you think that you cannot fulfil it then put a condition in place that “I promise that if this happens or if I am able to do this task or if I obtain this item from this place, then I will fulfil this promise”. Otherwise this will mean you are breaking your promises and that leads to untruthfulness which is a very unpleasant habit.

Many of our Khuddam are young men and are married and have children. If they make a promise to their children they should fulfil it. If they always fulfil their promises to their children than their children will never fall into the habit of not fulfilling their promises in turn. Children will then know that this is the right thing to do and will always try to fulfil their promises. We should remember that these children are our future generations. They have to one day take over the running of our Jama’at organisations. They have to keep our system progressing. So if they are not put into the habit of fulfilling their promises in childhood, then gradually they will start to take all tasks lightly. They will not give importance to any task. The habit of fulfilling promises and telling the truth should be instilled so strongly in children that right from childhood this should be the defining characteristic of Ahmadi children. It should be clear to everyone that this is an Ahmadi child.

Another defining characteristic of a hypocrite in the Hadith (mentioned above) is that when they fight they use foul language. You should remember that even if you have a conflict with someone, be it someone you know or not, you should not resort to insults. An Ahmadi’s language should always be pure and clean because if you use insults it means you are lying because you have no facts to back you up and you have no proof for what you are saying and that because of this you have become enraged have resorted to insults. This is why this is such a disreputable method which no Ahmadi should ever adopt. Children and those who are coming into manhood should especially pay attention to this. Every Ahmadi Khadim and Tifl should remember that he should use pure language and should never over any disagreement with anyone or any divergence with someone use unseemly language. He should never use insulting or foul language under any circumstances. When you can do this, it will become a sign of your truthfulness.

Hadhrat Masih-e-Maud  says that until man does not give up lying than he cannot be Muttahir (meaning pure). Wicked worldly people can say that they cannot survive without lying. It is worldly people who say that without lying there is no survival. If you cannot live telling the truth then it is certain that there is no survival by telling lies either. It is sad that these wretched people hold their God in such low esteem. They do not know that without God’s blessing there is no survival. They make their Lord and helper the foulness of untruthfulness. This is why in the Holy Qur’an, lying has been mentioned together with the foulness of idolatry. It is certain that we cannot take one step in fact even one breath without Allah’s blessing.

Like I have already mentioned, you should start a campaign against untruthfulness. Most of the Jama’at should take part but especially the Khuddam and Atfal, and indeed for the protection of the next generation, they should uproot this weakness.

Every Khadim and Tifl should tell the truth all the time. Like the Promised Messiah said, a person cannot be pure until he stops lying and removes untruthfulness from himself and he who is not pure cannot get close to Allah. If he cannot get close to Allah, then the reason for being an Ahmadi and being called an Ahmadi is wasted. Then there is no benefit in being one.

 

 

The Promised Messiah  asks how can such a man achieve closeness to Allah if he makes untruthfulness into his idol who thinks of lying as his god? Instead of worshipping his Allah, he worships untruthfulness. If we create the habit of telling the truth all the time, then all of the fundamental moral strengths will be established automatically in us and will keep on being established.

May Allah give you all the strength to do this. All of you have taken the Khuddam pledge which you repeat in every Ijlaas and meeting of following whatever Maroof decision the Khalifa makes. What is a Maroof decision? A Maroof decision is that whatever is the teaching of Allah and His Prophet  to spread in this world, to train oneself, to increase oneself in spirituality and to do what I remind you of continually - being regular in prayer.

Last year this was one of Khuddamul Ahmadiyya’s themes and they made efforts towards achieving it. In mosques and in Salaat centres the attendance is not what it should be. There are few young people especially in Fajr. If you have remained busy till late whilst studying, or have remained busy, or have been doing school or college work, yet everyone has an alarm clock nowadays. You should set an alarm before going to sleep. You can ask your elders to wake you up but if some children still don’t wake up, then they should sprinkle water on them to wake them up. The Khuddam that are older (and Khuddam are up to the age of 40) they should themselves make an effort to wake up and try to wake up their children as well, for many have children who are of the age when Salat becomes obligatory on them.

Apart from Fajr we should pay attention to the other prayers as well. Khuddamul Ahmadiyya had previously with these Salaat centres made arrangements for sports as well and I think those Majalis have won more awards in which Salaat centres are established and Salaat attendance is greater. The Khuddam get together for sports, meetings and Salat. If this is the arrangement everywhere and hopefully it is the arrangement in many places, we still need more effort. Maghrib and Ishaa attendance can also be increased. So this is a way of bringing people closer together, for Salaat and to bring them closer to mosques.

A Mumin should always pay attention to Salaat with concern. Establish respect (for Salaat) in yourselves and in your children. Then instil a habit of listening to the Dars after Salaat. The Dars is usually just five or 10 minutes. There is much many of you cannot read yourselves. Some don’t have books and some can’t read Urdu.

These Dars have been started for the purpose that the knowledge of the Qur’an, Hadith and Masih-e-Maud’s  teachings should reach you.

If you gain this knowledge then the knowledge of this world will also prove beneficial to you. By giving time to this knowledge, you will eventually be able to apply it to your everyday work.

The Khuddam who are still studying, for them learning religious knowledge and in particular Qur’anic knowledge will prove very beneficial.

Khuddamul Ahmadiyya should in their Tarbiyyat section of their report also report figures for congregational Salaat and how many attended the Dars and what is the improvement in it every month.

If you do not do this then what benefit are these promises, oaths and declarations of yours that whatever Maroof decision the Khalifa makes, I will feel bound to follow it.

This order is from Allah. The current Khalifa is only using his voice to spread this. At the time of doing the oath of allegiance, you have made this oath to the Promised Messiah. You should think about this and pay attention that by not fulfilling your promise and in accordance to the Hadith of the Holy Prophet  in which he has warned us that in that person is an element of hypocrisy (if he does not fulfil his promises). No Ahmadi would like this said about him and neither would it be pleasant if something like this was said about an Ahmadi.

Khuddam should pay special attention to this.

May Allah make you Khuddamul Ahmadiyya in the true sense of the word. We should not just have slogans, songs and promises, but in reality we should see in you what one should really see in an Ahmadi Khadim.

In the future the younger Khuddam and children have to bear these responsibilities and with the expansion of the Jama’at, if we do not make these changes then the Jama’at will still progress insha'Allah, but in your own Halqas you will start to feel left out.

In the future and with the spreading of the Jama’at, the responsibility of the Khuddam will also increase. Khuddam should therefore understand their responsibilities and understand the status Allah has bestowed on them.

If you understand the status Allah has given you and understand your responsibilities, then if the enemies of Ahmadiyyat, no matter how many attempts or how much effort they make to damage Ahmadiyyat, they can never be successful.

O Ahmadi young men and children, rise and raise the standard of your worship and raise your morals. May God give you the strength to do so. Ameen. 

 

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