The Devotion of Life — Page 42
42 Member and Acting President of the Qaza Board. Currently, he is serving the Jama’at as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, U. K. and as a member of the Tahir Foundation and a member of the Vakalat-e-Tasnif English Translation Team. In my opinion, his biggest honour is the pleasure Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IV rh showed towards him when he established Ahmadiyya Jama’at in Tuvalu and other Islands of the Pacific Region. While reviewing the extraordinary sacrifices the Jama’at has made in the field of devotion during the past one hundred years, he has presented the material meticulously, highlighting the addresses of Hadrat Masih Mau’d as and his Khulafa with regards to the needs of the time and their exhortations to the Jama’at to continue to offer sacrifices of life and wealth in the way of Allah. The Promised Messiah as said, “The revival of Islam requires an expiation from us. What is that expiation? It is to die in the way of Allah. ” Then the following edict of Hadrat Musleh Mau’d ra needs to be paid attention to where he says, “The progress of our Jama’at depends upon , and during the next three hundred years needed for Islam to be victorious, we have to devote at least our fifteen generations. ” Accordingly, the Khulafa of the Jama’at have been continuously issuing such directives. The purpose of all devotion schemes has been to achieve the Renaissance of Islam, whether it was the devotion for ‘Shudhi’ Movement, the devotion of seasonal vacation time, business devotion, the devotion of rural religious teachers, devotion after