Garments for Each Other — Page 67
67 attention is drawn to counsel and to advise, there would be a great despondence and hopelessness prompting one to leave these people in their state as they have crossed all limits. One hopes that there is a seed of decency in those people who believed in the Imam of the Age, as a result of which that seed eventually sprouted into a bud, and those people have now accepted Ahmadiyyat and will adhere to it. Therefore, according to Allah ’s commandment ‘to admonish’ and the responsibility which has been laid upon me by Allah that I should counsel and advise in the hope that this counseling will be blessed, I will try to give some advice. I pray that may Allah bless and create such an effect in my counseling words that all the homes that are breaking will become a heavenly place. I have been trying to draw attention to this topic in my previous sermons, but today, I will explain it in more detail. As I said, after receiving letters and after meeting with the Jama’at members, it is distressing to hear incidents concerning marital conflicts in the sense that our aims are high, yet we have entangled ourselves in an egotistical web born out of trivial matters; we are turning our heavenly homes into a place of hell. Instead of making a positive effort to support the progress of the Jama’at, our actions are completely negative. Whosoever is creating these problems, by entangling himself in his own web of ego, is not only creating troubles for himself and the other party, but also creating problems for the organization of the Jama’at, and for me as well. May Allah give them wisdom to understand the mission for which Allah raised the Promised Messiah (as). The Promised Messiah (as) said his advent for which Allah has appointed him is to remove all animosities between the Creator and His creation and to establish the bond of love and sincerity between them. He also said: