Ahmadiyyat in Singapore, Indonesia and Malayasia

Today Hazrat Khalifatul Masih delivered his Friday sermon from Ta Ha Mosque, Singapore. He said:

‘It is with the grace of Allah the Exalted that once again He has enabled me to meet Ahmadis of this region. The situation in Malaysia and Indonesia as regards the Jama’at is such that it is difficult for me to go there. Singapore is one such place where Allah the Exalted facilitates meeting members of these Jama’ats. May Allah the Exalted make the situation such that things ease in these countries and the Khalifa of the time is enabled to go there.

This time over three thousand Ahmadis have come from Indonesia and Malaysia, most of them are from Indonesia. In addition, Ahmadis have also come from Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and the Philippines. Some non-Ahmadis have also come. In any case it is a favour of Allah the Exalted that He has facilitated these meetings.

Indonesia is one such country in this region where because of Ahmadiyyat members of the Jama’at are being badly persecuted and there have been martyrdoms. The persecution took place and indeed is still taking place in the presence of government workers. It is not that it just happened once.

I came here for the first time about seven years ago. Persecution of Ahmadis in Indonesia had started a short while prior to [my visit]. Mosques were attacked, there was general rampaging, Jama’at property was damaged and Ahmadis were attacked and they endured loss of life and property. Wave of enmity grew fiercer and fiercer after that and loss of life and property continued. All of you know how cruelly and brutally Ahmadis were martyred in the supervision of police. The barbarity was of such level that fair-minded local media also condemned it. Nowadays the world has shrunk so much due to the media that details of this persecution reached everyone and the world’s attention was turned to it and many voices were raised against it. We are grateful to all the organisations or individuals who spoke up against the persecution of Jama’at. Yet, Allah the Exalted in another ways brings about some good results of every episode of persecution of the Jama’at. Due to the persecution of Indonesian Ahmadis, the Jama’at was introduced on a large scale around the world. When the video of the persecution where three Ahmadis were martyred was shown in a far-flung part of Africa, a great learned person there decided that such cruelty can only be perpetrated against true believers and as a result he accepted Ahmadiyyat, true Islam This particular persecution not only resulted in Bai’ats in Indonesia but also Bai’ats in many areas of the world.

After Pakistan Indonesia is one such country where cruelty and barbarity continues to be perpetrated and where brutal persecution of Ahmadis is taking place. Although the situation is easing somewhat in Indonesia, it continues in Pakistan. And this oppression is taking place in the name of God and His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). In the name of that God Whose teaching is replete with paying the dues of mankind, in the name of that God Who gives Muslims the teaching of compassion and justice, in the name of that Prophet who was ‘mercy for all the worlds’, who stopped from cruelty even during the hour of battle and who was most displeased with his Companion for killing a person who had recited the Kalima (Muslim declaration of faith). When the Companion told him that the Kafir had uttered the Kalima out of fear of the sword, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be on him) asked him if he had cut open the man’s heart and seen whether he had uttered the Kalima out of fear or with sincerity.

In any case, the persecution in Pakistan is of extreme nature. People who utter the Kalima are being persecuted in the name of the Kalima and it is the influence of the Pakistani Mullahs on the Indonesian Mullahs who have been committing cruelty and who