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We Have Heard a Crier Calling Unto Faith… Saliha Malik Slide 1 We have heard a Crier calling unto faith… Saliha Malik Slide 1: Slide 2: “Our Lord, we have heard a Crier calling us unto faith, „Believe ye in your Lord,‟ and we have believed. Our Lord, forgive us, therefore, our errors and remove from us our evils, and in death number us with the righteous.” 3:194 To say that we have heard a Crier calling us to faith is no small matter in a person‟s life. Indeed, it is true to say that when we take that step, it is a great turning point. All aspects of our life come under scrutiny. We make dramatic changes. The way we see and understand things is different. We want to live differently now that we have heard this Crier. And as the verse explains, we spontaneously seek forgiveness from God, having realized what we need to do. Slide 3: And who is this Crier that stopped us in our tracks? Well it is definitely the one that God has sent. It could refer to any and all of His chosen ones, His Messengers that came for the good of mankind. They all said, there is only One God, the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen; worship Him alone. As Ahmadi Muslims we have heard that „Cry‟ from Allah‟s chosen one, Muhammad Mustafahsa. He told us – in the days of stress when you hear of the Messiah, go to him, though you might have to crawl on your hands and knees on a glacier.1 And we did go to him. We heard the Messiahas, who told us that at his demise God has promised to send His second manifestation – Khilafat, which is an everlasting promise. And so now, my Dear Sisters, we are those that hear the Khalifa call to us on a daily basis: there is only one God; worship Him alone. Slide 4: In my speech today I will focus on the importance and blessings of listening to our beloved Khalifa. I will also speculate on the challenges we face in these days with regards to truly listening to the Khalifa of the time, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih Vab so that our hearts will respond, and it becomes evident in our actions and practice. In the Address to the Ladies at Jalsa USA 2008, we were fortunate to have our beloved Huzoor standing here. He pointed out that a while ago it was quite difficult to actually „hear‟ the Khalifa: “There was a time when the speaker [the Imam, the Khalifa] had to shout loudly until well into the time of Khalifa tul Masih IIrz, as audio facility was not available in Qadian.”2 Slide 5: But Huzoor explained: “Allah the Almighty has conferred many favors on the Jama‟at Ahmadiyya. He has made all inventions of the age for the service of the servants of the Promised Messiahas. The Promised Messiahas has himself said that all these modern inventions have been provided by Allah the Almighty in support of the Messiahas. Amongst these inventions and befitting the time, an outstanding invention is one that transmits voice and picture from one place to another in seconds; that is to say the satellite television system. Words are inadequate to thank Allah the Almighty for bestowing these favors through His special Grace upon the Ahmadiyya Community. Programs in different languages on the message of Islam and Ahmadiyyat, tarbiyyat or training and reformation of the Jamaat, as well as sermons and speeches that rank as guidance for the Jamaat, are being received instantaneously throughout the world.”2 When Huzoorab returned in 2012, he added: “Alhamdulillah, through the blessings of MTA, Allah the Almighty has reduced the distance between the Khalifa and the members of the Jama‟at worldwide. Thus, although I may not always be able to see you directly, however, all of you can see and hear me… If a person says that because of global time differences, it is difficult for them to hear my sermons or speeches live, then they should know that within a few hours a repeat is broadcast on MTA; and, indeed, it is repeated a number of times during the week. Apart from this, we now have a wealth of resources on the Internet, whereby all the programs are… available to view 24 hours a day…. MTA has also started an on-demand Internet service where all important programs have been placed. Slide 6: No Excuse Therefore, no Ahmadi can have any valid excuse through which he or she can say that they were not in a position to find out about a particular instruction; neither can they claim that they missed the sermon of the Khalifa, because they were busy with some other engagement.”3 So nowadays, we have every facility at our fingertips, every technological advantage is there for us to access our Beloved Huzoorab, to bring him into our homes and to listen to him. But strangely and sadly, we face new obstacles in these days, so that in spite of these advantages, many are still not listening to the Khalifa of the timeab or for those who listen, how much did we actually hear? What are these challenges of our time? Just like Huzoorab said we know that the modern advances in communications are ultimately for the benefit of mankind and for the advancement of our community – the community of the Promised Messaihas, and we are certainly using it to our advantage. However, as these systems are rapidly emerging we can see both advantages and disadvantages. Suffice it say that whenever there is progress in spiritual matters, Satan comes in to see how many he can distract from the straight path. In the recent issue of The Economist, there was an interview with the inventor of the Worldwide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. „“Has the Internet failed?”, author Ludwig Seigele asked him, “I wouldn‟t say the Internet has failed with a capital F, but it has failed to deliver the positive, constructive society many of us had hoped for,” he replied … Until a few years ago most users, if asked what they thought of the Internet, would have rattled off a list of the things they love about the it – that it lets them stay in touch with friends, provides instant access to a huge range of information, sparks innovation, even helps undermine authoritarian regimes…. Slide 7: The Challenges But like Sir Tim, many people have recently become more critical of it, concerned that it creates online addicts, hoovers up everybody‟s data and empowers malicious trolls and hackers.‟4 …Concerned that it creates online addicts… Slide 8: For the past 25 years we have been living in the so-called Information Age. “We live in a world saturated with information,” writes author David Gladwell, “We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times… But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected cost of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.”5 Slide 9: “Now consider how we get so much of our information in this modern media age”, says author David Ropeik, “- in short little pieces, tweets and texts and brief news reports...”6 Slide 10: “We are losing our listening!”, claims sound expert Julian Treasure. “The world is now so noisy it has become hard and tiring to listen. We have become impatient, we have become desensitized. Our media has to scream at us to get our attention.” 7 Slide 11: Are we Hooked? My Dear sisters, these few statements briefly capture the dilemma of our times and how our minds are being hijacked, unless we are truly watchful. Many are not aware that they have been seduced. The way the media controls us and provides access to information and diversions of every kind has flooded our senses. It has taken over our attention, diverted our focus, swamped our capacity to decide for ourselves and undermined our ability to choose between right and wrong. Women and young girls have their self-esteem shattered by unreal standards of beauty promoted through social media. Depression and anxiety levels are higher than ever before. Small children are enslaved to their electronic device at a younger and younger age and mothers and fathers turn to this „baby-sitter‟ so that they too can carry on with their own Internet fixation. Apparently, the number of hits to pornography sites for both men and women exceed all other uses of the Internet. Walking in the streets most people are lost in their own world with ear buds in their ears or looking at their phones. There is no room in many people‟s lives for silence, thought or self-reflection. And our media is certainly screaming at us from every site and corner of our western world! Slide 12: Whereas listening to the Khalifa requires a different skill… The one who calls people to faith must reach into the deepest ears of men and women to change preconceptions in them, fixed ideas, old customs and stubborn ways. The Crier calls to the innermost depths of their hearts and minds to that secret place that knows the truth and recognizes it. The Crier calls so that it awakens the inner voice of conscience in us. And when that voice awakens we say, “We Hear, and we Obey”! Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad beautifully explains this reaction in his commentary on the Hadith “The High concept of Obedience in Islam”. The words „We Hear, and we Obey‟ describe a lively and positive type of obedience… A person should be all ears to the commands of the Imam, so that he or she can implement it immediately.
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