Power of Prayers for Special Help

‘Or, Who answers the distressed person when he calls upon Him, and removes the evil, and makes you successors in the earth? Is there a God besides Allah? Little is it that you reflect.’ (27:63)

The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) repeatedly advised his Jama’at to greatly focus on prayer because the progress of the Jama’at and release from the evil of the enemy is through prayer! He clearly explained that our only weapon to triumph over the enemy is prayer. How much significance should we then pay to prayer and how much should we focus on it; indeed, how much significance and focus do we lay on it. This can be gauged by everyone by reflecting over their own condition.

Recently a relative recounted a dream of theirs to Huzoor in which Huzoor is telling them that Ramadan has passed very quickly while Huzoor intended to draw greater attention of the Jama’at towards prayer. One point of importance here is that our focus on prayers will not remain as it was during the days of Ramadan although the Jama’at is in great need of prayers. Even before this dream was recounted to Huzoor, Huzoor was divinely inspired to draw the attention of the Jama’at towards prayers post-Ramadan and this was heightened after listening to the dream. This is the way of God; although He inspires the heart towards something, He also motivates true believers to something through true believers. Generally speaking the intensity in prayer does not remain the same after Ramadan!

The current global affairs are dire; the situation in the Muslim world, in particular the continuous cruel attacks by Israel on Palestinians. Up until yesterday a temporary ceasefire was in place but it is said that it has been broken as of today. The allegation is that the ceasefire was broken from the Palestinian side although God knows best. May God somehow bring this persecution to an end! We also see the extreme of Muslims killing Muslims and the worst extremism from these people who profess the Kalima (Muslim declaration of faith) is that in the name of God and His Prophet, they are persecuting Ahmadis. And with utter stubbornness they look for excuses to continue this persecution. They want to persecute Ahmadis at every level, at every opportunity.

Influenced by the Mullahs, this has become the way of a large majority of non-Ahmadis in Pakistan. The young are being poisoned, their minds are being poisoned. They have no idea what faith is and who an enemy is but they say that Ahmadis are disbelievers and their murder is allowed. Students are rude to Ahmadi school teachers simply because of their faith. Proceedings are set in motion to dismiss them from schools and students refuse to be taught by them! Recently in a small town in Pakistan students and their parents took out a rally against an Ahmadi teacher boycotting him on the basis of his faith. The head master or some other sensible person told them that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) used to even release knowledgeable prisoners of wars on the condition that they imparted their knowledge to the Muslims although they had come to battle the Muslims with the intention of killing them. The belligerent people of the small town in Pakistan responded that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) may have said that to the pagans but they did not agree because the ‘Qadianis’ were worse than the pagans, adding, they would let the ‘Qadianis’ off although killing them is permissible.

This persecution and cruelty does not cease after any particular incident, rather, it continues. When the neighbours of Ahmadis in Gujaranwala who used to socialise with them saw their homes vacated, they joined the mob. When morals plunge so low nothing except ‘Inna Lillah’ can be said! In light of these circumstances, we need to turn to God much more than before. We should not let our prayers lessen. While other Muslims res