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About Friday Sermon:
The Jumu’ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu’ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammadsa this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
Importance of Friday Prayers in the Holy Qur’an: “O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew.” more
Friday Prayers in Hadees-e-Nabwi (saw): “… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quietly when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next”(Bukhari)
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In the weekly MTA programme Rah e Huda, our missionaries and scholars discuss various subjects and also answer questions from callers, including non-Ahmadis, live on TV.
Last week Hazrat Khalifatul Masih happened to watch part of the programme when a non-Ahmadi questioner was putting his question with reference to a revelation of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). In a way his question was an objection and in his preamble the caller said that the Holy Qur’an, which is the Word of God, Hadith and works of other holy persons all have a concordance and a flow which he failed to see in the Promised Messiah’s (on whom be peace) words. Even if the intention of the caller was not to object, his tone appeared so. The words of the said revelation are: ‘[Urdu] After ten days I shall demonstrate my [surging] Sign. [Arabic] [Hearken! The help of Allah is near like a pregnant she-camel in labour.] [English] Then will you go to Amritsar.’ (Tadkirah, p. 67 2009 edition)
The question was responded briefly on the programme but Huzoor felt it was important to give the details in the Promised Messiah’s (on whom be peace) own words so that other objectors or youngsters with less knowledge may not be influenced by this episode or perhaps they want to know details. Questions are sometimes answered by our scholars on the spot on Rah e Huda and at other times questions that require detailed response are answered in the following programme. Hazrat Khalifatul Masih said there is no need for him to start responding to every objection or question in his sermons. The reason he explained the matter today was because in his previous series of sermons he had said that the signs of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) and God’s succour is with us in such abundance that the others perhaps do not have a… continue reading at alislam.org
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Europe, Friday Sermon of Khalifatul Masih, Islam, UK
I listened intently to the Khutbah in Urdu. It is excellent. It needs to be printed in Urdu and English (and may be German) with references of Masih Ma’ud books (Tadhkirah and Malfoozat etc.) The printing may be done from the actual books (pages). The purpose would be to distribute the few pages, in the form a booklet, amongst non-Ahmadis.
There is much guidance in the words of the promised Messiah a.s.
I remembered an incident (a kashaf, a vision while awake) in the life of the promised Messiah a.s. He was reading Quran in upper floor of house, while some persons were sitting in ground floor discussing possible opening for his elder brother’s appointment in government job.
[I shall collect the correct info and present it later some day, Insha Allah.]
Here is the detail of that vision of the Promised Messiah a.s. that he saw in year 1868 A.D. I have added only few words in parenthesis.
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About 1868
A person of the name of Sehaj Ram was a Reader in the Court of the Commissioner at Amritsar. Prior to that, he had been Reader to the Deputy Commissioner at Sialkot and in those days he was often engaged in religious discussions with me. He was by nature hostile towards Islam.
It so happened that my elder brother (Mirza Ghulam Qadir), who had appeared in the competitive examination for the post of tahsildar (sub-district officer) and had been successful, was staying in Qadian at his home awaiting his assignment to a post. One day, at the time of ‘Asr (prayer), I was occupied with reading the Holy Qur’an in the upper chambers of the house. At the end of one page, as I was about to turn over to the next (page), I suddenly experienced a state of vision*. I saw Sehaj Ram dressed in black and standing before me in the attitude of great humility and supplication as if trying to persuade me to intercede for him that he might be shown mercy. I said to him: ‘There is no time left for mercy;’ and simultaneously I was made to understand by Allah the Almighty that Sehaj Ram had expired at that moment. But no information had yet been conveyed about it.
Thereafter (soon after the vision), I descended from my room and found that my brother was sitting in the company of six or seven people and that their conversation related to the matter of my brother’s assignment to a post. I said: ‘Should Pandit Sehaj Ram die, his post would also be suitable.’ Those present laughed at me for having suddenly announced the death of a person who was hale and hearty (in another city).
On the second or third day, the news arrived that Sehaj Ram had died suddenly at that very hour.
[Haqiqatul-Wahi, p. 296, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 22, p. 309] * this is a vision while awake, called kashaf.
Link to the book is shown below. Please read the material on page 12.
https://www.alislam.org/library/books/Tadhkirah.pdf