Ahmadiyyat Destiny and Progress — Page 42
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 42 hearts; may You be our only goal and objective. Our Lord! Fulfil our entreaties. With these supplicatory words I inaugurate this year’s jalsa. I will now take my leave. As I said yesterday all participants should spend their time listening to the various speeches and lectures which will be delivered during the course of the convention. Do not aimlessly wander around and admonish your friends to do the same. It used to be that on account of the many people in attendance, the proceedings [of the jalsa] could not be heard by all. Therefore, a degree of allowance could be made [if some attendees did not listen]. But today, by the grace of God, the use of loudspeaker systems means everyone is able to hear the convention. In the past there were difficulties in conveying the proceedings to all the participants, whereas today loudspeakers are able to carry sound for many miles. In my estimation this is a sign of the truth of the Promised Messiah as , for the Holy Prophet sa prophesied the Promised Messiah would bring success to Islam through printing and publication 25 and this is also intimated in the Holy Qur’an 26. In order to establish the truth of this sign, God disseminated the written books [of the Promised Messiah as ] to the people, 25 Kanzul-‘Umm a l , vol. 11, p. 401. pub. 1974, Aleppo [Publishers] 26 Surah At-Takwir , 81:11 [Publishers]