Strive for Goodness and Peace for All

After tashahhud, ta’awwuz and recitation of Sura Al-Fatiha, Huzur Aqdas (may Allah strengthen him with His Mighty Help) said:

Allah, the Exalted, says in the Holy Quran: You are the best people raised for the good of mankind; (3:111)

Huzur Aqdas (ab) says you are those people who have been raised for the good of other people and for their beneficence. This is, from among the duties of Muslims, one of the biggest responsibilities that the world should be benefitted by them. The world should receive from them goodness and beneficence and not harm or evil. However, at this time, the situation in which the world finds itself, that we observe, that the Muslim governments, peoples and organizations have created so much disorder that a large part of the world is fearful of the name of Islam and the Muslims. And if such a fearful situation exists then who is it that would want to listen to what the Muslims want to convey or should think that we may receive some goodness or benefit from them.

The people who are cutting the throats of their own people and are killing innocents, women, children, and the aged without any regard, and without any reason, illegally and who are enslaving those who do not share their way of thinking; how can it be expected from them that they could be such as would wish for good for the non-Muslims.

Thus these acts that such people carry out, can, and in fact do, result inevitably in only this that the world is fearful of Muslims. For us Ahmadis there is, in this, a lot to feel ashamed and sad about that our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who is a Mercy for the Universe, is the one that such people ascribe themselves to while doing such misdeeds.

They have brought infamy upon the religion of Islam and they are also presenting the Holy Prophet to the world in a totally wrong way contrary to his real exemplary nature. Nevertheless, as an Ahmadi we are not at all dismayed nor do we lose hope seeing these misdeeds of their.

When I present these things, these misdeeds of the Muslims, to most non-Muslims as an argument in favor of the truth of the Holy Prophet of Islam because the Holy Prophet had said that a time will come when the condition of the Muslims will be precisely this - in fact he had also identified the age when this would happen. He had indicated that this downward trend would begin after such a length of time and had foretold for how long such a night of darkness would last and then the Promised Messiah (as) would appear and rejuvenate the true and beautiful teachings of Islam in the world again. That teaching which is still present in its true form in the Holy Quran and every word of which teaching we see reflected in the exemplary life of the Holy Prophet (sa). And we Ahmadis believe that in this era of misguidance, in accordance with the prophecies of the Holy Prophet, that Promised Messiah and Mahdi has indeed appeared. And he did not just make the claim of having come but in his person, and with his advent, were fulfilled all the signs that the Holy Quran and the Sayings of the Holy Prophet had mentioned.

And this Promised Messiah and Mahdi introduced us to the beautiful teachings of Islam and lit up our hearts with its illumination. Today it is this Jama’at -e-Ahmadiyya that is acting on these beautiful teachings of Islam. When the people are told these things, they become convinced that Islam is not false but rather the actions of these people are at fault who are spreading chaos and disorder in the world in the name of Islam.

So every Ahmadi must remember that to call the world to goodness and being desirous of good for everyone is the responsibility of every Ahmadi because Allah, through His Grace and Favor has bestowed upon us the bounty of having accepted the Promised Messiah (as).

It is not our duty to just live in peace. Our duty is not only to stay away from any misdeeds