بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

 

Friday Sermon

 

HADHRAT AMIR’UL MUMINEEN MUHYI-UD-DIN

 

Munir Ahmad Azim

 

06 December 2013 ~

(02 Safar 1435 Hijri)

 

 

(Summary of Friday Sermon)

 

 

After having greeted all his followers (and all Muslims) round the world – mentioning the nearby islands, India, Kerala, Trinidad and Tobago etc. – with the Salutations of Peace, Hazrat Muhyi-ud-Din (atba) read the Tashahhud, Taouz and Surah Al Fatiha and then said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before coming on the main subject of his sermon, the Khalifatullah Hazrat Munir Ahmad Azim (atba) talked on:

 

(1) Demise of Mr. Nelson Mandela:

 

(a) The demise of the great politician and human rights fighter Nelson Mandela who died early this morning at the age of 95. Huzur (atba) talked a lot on his good works and the injustice which happened to him when he was imprisoned for 27 years, and the true forgiving nature he expressed when he was released from prison and fought for the rights of both white and black people to live life on an equal footing – the white people were considered as superior and used to enter buildings through the front door, while the black people did not have such rights and had to go through the back door. He became the first “black” president of South Africa and obtained a Nobel Prize for Peace.

 

Huzur (atba) talked also about the Mahatma Gandhi and likened him to Mandela who were both born leaders, knowing how to lead their people to get justice and to exhibit a good nature. Huzur (atba) also reminded the congregation about the prophecy mentioned in December 2012 where High personalities were to leave this world in the year 2013, and verily Nelson Mandela is a high and respected personality. Huzur (atba) extends on his behalf as well as the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam his and our sincere condolences to the bereaved family of late Mr. Nelson Mandela.

 

(b) Muslim Politicians who need to take example from such a high and humble and peace promoting personality whom Mr. Nelson Mandela represented. He stressed on the fact that despite that we Muslims have everything being perfected for us: a perfect book, a perfect prophet and model, yet Muslims are fighting against each other and they do not even hesitate to kill their brothers when they go to attend their Jummah prayer. Muslims are fighting each other, and Ahmadis (mainstream) in particular, despite the great motto: Love for All, Hatred for None, are not honouring those words.

 

Instead the actual Amir, along with the ex-Amir in Mauritius have ridiculed this motto. There is hatred and boycott instead of love and peace. They are boycotting the Ahmadis for their duty to attend religious ceremonies such as weddings etc. They are taking creature as more honourable and they think that it is a great feat that their fifth Khalifa has received felicitation and honour from the Queen of England. They should have instead feared Allah, for they are only satisfied in being honoured in the court of man instead of the court of Allah.

 

With the frauds which have happened in the Jamaat Ahmadiyya (mainstream), everything is being covered up/masked. They, especially the actual Amir is a mundane man attached to mundane favours instead of the spiritual ones. Can he say how many young Ahmadis have already received their spiritual formation like he mentioned in a Jalsa Salana? Shame on those people who prefer the world instead of the divine favours.

 

(2) 10 years since the revelation of the title of “Muhyi-ud-Din” and Bai’at (06 December 2003 – 06 December 2013):

 

The Khalifatullah (atba) talked about the historical event of how on a Saturday ten years ago while he was about to do his speech, divine revelations overcame him and on the spot Allah revealed him to make proclamation officially that he is the Muhyi-ud-Din of this era and gave him instructions to take bai’at of his disciples and that night, all as one, united came together, hands on each other’s shoulder to take the Bai’at on the hand of Allah (represented by the hand of the Muhyi-ud-Din at that moment).

 

He detailed how there was the first person to have got this blessing, the one who used to listen and copy the revelations from Allah received through Huzur (atba), be it in the morning prior going to work, while on his way to work and at night also for long hours. Another person said she received revelations that the proclamation was to take place at her home, but Allah knew best her heart and this did not materialise and instead it was that first person who got this blessing at his place, Les Guibies, Pailles. The proclamation was made on two days, 06-07 December 2003. On 07 December 2013, there was a special programme where each family in the Jamaat Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen came for Mulaakat and Bai’at with the Muhyi-ud-Din of this era, with photo taking and other programmes. There was the Noor of Allah which manifested on that day.

 

Huzur explained as to how now, that first person who took bai’at has now become estranged along with those who tried to control a Messenger of Allah. Verily, Huzur explains, a Messenger of Allah received his instructions from Allah only, not men, but when men try to control a Messenger of Allah, then they go to their own lost. Now, they are suffering because of family-feelings – still family-feelings (instead of being connected and firm in the Divine Manifestation with the Messenger of Allah).

 

A Zalim also tried ten years back to harm the Messenger of Allah and the Jamaat Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen. Huzur (atba) describes him as the Judas of this era. All the plans and spying he did for the account of the Jamaat Ahmadiyya (mainstream), but really his time of punishment is coming soon. The divine punishment shall overcome him. When he left and tried to create chaos, his family members, the Jamaat Ahmadiyya officials including the ex-so-called Amir and the actual Amir of Mauritius used to attend to his needs, pamper him and take great care of him (because of the information which he used to give them), but now where all the pampering has gone? Where that Zalim is now, being abandoned (put in a corner) by those same people who used to attend to him because of the information he detained because he was the Secretary of the Jamaat Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen. He is the grand-child of Hafiz Jamal Ahmad (who was among the first Ahmadi missionaries in Mauritius); he used to boast about this relation, yet Huzur explains, from among the progeny of Hafiz Jamal Ahmad, there manifested a Judas (a traitor/evil-doer) also. When he left the Jamaat Ahmadiyya Al Mouslemeen, he used to canvass people through phone and even in Jalsa Gah against the Elect of Allah.

 

It was then after all the blames he stocked on the humble person of Huzur (atba) that Allah elevated Hazrat Khalifatullah as the Muhyi-ud-Din of this era in December 2003.

 

(3) Man, the Most Superior and Gregarious animal.

 

Man by nature, belongs to the animal kingdom with which he shares some common character traits. However, he is distinguished from animals by an innumerable number of differences which ensure him superiority and make him unequalled (in the animal world).

 

The essential difference between man and the animal world, which makes the very principle of humanity and gives source to what we call civilization and culture, comes from his vision of the world and the trends with which he is equipped (with Allah’s help), including his thinking capacity as well as various other abilities.

While the animal world has the ability to perceive, to feel that which surrounds it and thereby access from then on to its plans and desire, on the other hand humans, even if like other animals have cravings and desires, but the difference is that he is able to use his knowledge to satisfy them (i.e., those desires). Man has the privilege to expand his perceptions and knowledge beyond the physical targets to apply them to the extent of his ideas and aspirations.

The world is perceived by the animal through its sense and the information it derives is only superficial and subjective, because it cannot penetrate the internal relations of things and all information that it takes are partial and subjective and cannot be generalized to other facts; its knowledge remains localized in the immediate present, independent of the past or the future. That is to say that this information does not exceed the limits of the living space and the natural environment of the animal that has no conscience of its own history, or that of the universe and is not concerned with its future. It is in a way imprisoned by the quality of its knowledge and if it manages to escape out of bounds of that given knowledge which compartmentalize it, then it is neither conscious nor deliberate, but rather it is a natural and unconscious instinctive obligation, the level of desires and cravings is as the field of its knowledge of the limited world and its desires are limited materials which are only in agreement with this temporal world, whereby the animal’s main functions are reduced to acts such as eating, drinking, sleeping, playing, nesting, mating. For the animal, spiritual and moral values ​​have no meaning. The self-centeredness of an animal enables it to care for itself only, or at torque to preoccupy itself and care for its mate, little ones and its natural environment.

 
As for man, whom we consider from the point of view of his information, his conceptions, knowledge as well as well as from the point of view of his aspirations and ideals, has a much broader and vast horizon.

Human Information and the knowledge which he draws from it surpass the appearance of phenomena; he seeks to penetrate the essence of things, to reach their essence so that he may then determine the dependencies and causality and find therein the laws that govern them.

His knowledge is not limited like that of the animal which depends on its natural environment, nor is he (man) limited to the present moment. His knowledge extends beyond space and time to achieve the objectives of a different dimension such as the knowledge of the history of man, that of the earth as well as that of the universe and its creation. By this means man reaches a certain supremacy which helps him predict the degree of the vastness of eternal infinity, it gives him the means by the discovery of the fundamental laws governing the world, to impose himself in nature.

The idealism of the man raises him to a certain perfectionism in his search of the absolute value and the principles he builds are universal for all mankind and he will even sacrifice himself for the benefit of others, caring for them by forgetting his own needs and taking the worries and needs of humanity as being dear to him, so that they may not suffer. This aspect of man brings the evolution of mankind forward in what we call civilization.

The knowledge of man has increased and has been perfected over the centuries, submitting to various rules and laws in a particular logic known as ‘science’. Science is the ordained result of collective work of man, composed of all the reflections and meditations on the world and its origin. By his faith and his commitment to his convictions, man evolves in his approach to the sublime. He meditates on the ideas propagated by certain philosophies or revealed by the Messengers of God: the prophets, the stage where man reaches the ultimate point of spirituality and sublimation which Allah wants him to reach. So when man gives the maximum of himself in this cause, the cause of Allah and believes sincerely, he thus reaches a station which we call: faith (Iman). He acquires Iman.

We therefore conclude that the criterion of humanity is science and faith, privilege which man has over the animal. It is this great distinction which differentiate man from animals for the latter are guided by their present primitive instincts whereas man has the capacity to ponder over his past, live his present so that to change his future and make it become better.

Man is a living specie as well as all other living beings, but he is ranked superior and this superiority is great for man is a social being, with intelligence, with the means to learn and teach others and to use his knowledge for the progress of his natural environment, as well as the universe as a whole, and he can do it if he seeks the help of Allah so that he may progress further in the quest of both material and spiritual knowledge. Man is such a being who appreciates the beauty of things; he is conscious that he needs to be social and talk with others like himself and help them whenever these people need him, and even if they do not seek his help. He goes forward unasked to extend his help. Man is also loves justice, and he likes to create things which shall be useful for him in his everyday life. He also has the capacity to read and write and be responsible. He is also a spiritual being who is constantly in search of the eternal (the boons of the afterlife), of the absolute, infinite, and he is thirsty to reach the ideal in all things and also especially to attain to his Creator, the Being  who equipped him with all necessities so that he may live his life on earth in a good way.

It is obvious that all these qualifications which could add others define the characteristic of man who in fact is an animal determined by privilege and faith.

The ability of man to perceive things according to the instructions of his Creator, to recognize the Creator and be faithful to Him gives him a greater degree on other animals, the latter having not obtained that power, that knowledge which is reinforced by the divine will. And we must not also forget that despite that man is created with water and clay, he nevertheless remains the essence of the breath of God, and this is represented by the consciousness that emanates from him, the soul which is in him for a limited time so that he can leave the animal state to progress to the moral and spiritual state. This enables him to become human in the true sense of the word, human and grateful servant of God.

Due to lack of time, Insha-Allah, I will continue on the same topic of my sermon next Friday. May Allah give us yet more knowledge to understand His creation and recognize the benefits that He gave us when He made ​​us born human and from His essence, and thus showed us the way how to get out of primitive animal state to achieve the highest degree of spirituality. Insha-Allah, Ameen.