Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi — Page 175
Condition X 175 Allah the Almighty safeguards His Jam a ‘at and somehow makes him aware of the error. In the terminology of sages, it is called ‘lesser sanctity’. That means, the Prophets enjoy a ‘greater sanctity’ but the Khulaf a ’ have ‘lesser sanctity’ and Allah the Almighty does not permit any such major mistakes by them that may cause disaster for the Jam a ‘at. Their deci- sions may have partial and minor mistakes, but in the end, the result will be victory for Islam and defeat for its enemies. Thus, because the Khulaf a ’ enjoy ‘lesser sanctity’, their policy will emanate from Allah’s. While it is true that they will be the one speaking, their tongues will be in motion, their hands will move, their minds will work, yet behind all of this will be the hand of Allah. They can make minor errors in finer details. Sometimes their advisors can give them wrong advice. But crossing these intermediary obsta- cles, they will be the one who will be victorious. And when all the links are put together, the resulting chain will be good and it will be so strong that no power will be able to break it. ( Tafs i r-e-Kab i r, Hadrat Mirz a Bashir-ud-Din Ma h m u d Ahmad ra , vol. 6, pp. 376–377) From this, it is evident that ‘not good’ is that which is a blatant violation of commandments of Allah the Almighty and the instructions of the shar i ‘ah. Hadrat ‘Al i ra narrates that the Holy Prophet sa sent away an expedition and appointed a leader for it so people should listen to him and obey him. This leader had a fire set up and commanded his companions to jump into it. Some people did not obey him and said, ‘We have become Muslims to escape the fire. ’ But some people were prepared to jump into the fire. When the Holy Prophet sa