Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 97
Condition V 97 was prostrating. He was praying, “Allah, I seek the protection of Thy pleasure against Thy displeasure; and I seek the protec- tion of Thy forgiveness against Thy punishment. I cannot count the ways of praising Thee. You are as You have described Your Holy Self. ”’ ( Sunan-ut-Tirmadh i , Kit a b-ud- Da‘w a t, B a bu M a J a ’a f i ‘ Aqdit-Tas bih i Bil-yad) Another tradition says that: Someone from Medina heard from Hadrat ‘Abdul Wahh a b Bin al-Ward ra that Hadrat Mu‘ a wiyah ra wrote to Hadrat ‘A ishah ra requesting some advice. She replied, ‘ Assal a mo ‘Alaikum. I have heard the Holy Prophet sa say, “One who seeks the pleasure of Allah, even at the cost of displeasing some people, Allah is Sufficient for him against them. But he who displeases Allah for the sake of pleasing some people, Allah hands him over to those people. ”’ ( Sunan-ut-Tirmadh i , Kit a b-uz-Zuhd, B a bu M a J a ’a f i H i fz i l-L is an, H ad i th No. 2414 ) You Are the Last Jam a ‘at Established by Allah The Promised Messiah as writes: It is inevitable that you should be tried with diverse types of pain and misfortune as the faithful before you were tried. Be mindful, lest you should stumble. So long as you have a firm relationship with heaven, the earth can do you no harm. Whenever harm befalls you, it will be through yourself and not through your enemy. Even if you lose all honour on earth, Allah will bestow eternal honour upon you from heaven. So