Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 10
10 Hadhrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad coordination in all the projects to be planned. It is not enough to have at random one project in Africa, another in Europe, another in America and yet another in other countries and islands, etc. This coordination can only be achieved when there is a body to plan these projects strategically. This body is the Khilafat in the Ahmadiyya Community. Most of you understand what is meant by Khilafat in the Ahmadiyya Jama’at, but there are those who do not understand. One characteristic of this Khilafat is that it has been established by God the Exalted, and He has promised that through this institution of Khilafat He would manifest the Mighty hand of His Powers. This Khilafat is supported by God the Exalted. This Khilafat has one entity. Khilafat is a soul and it has a body — the Ahmadiyya Jama’at. The combination of the soul and body forms an institution. In 1967, a few Christian priests visited me in Copenhagen, Denmark. One of them asked me my position in Jama’at Ahmadiyya. To this I replied that his question was wrong because we take the Imam Jama’at Ahmadiyya and the Jama’at Ahmadiyya as synonymous. It means that the Khalifa of the age and the Jama’at Ahmadiyya are combined to form one body. It is the task of the Khilafat to struggle for the removal of Jama’at’s troubles. The Khalifa of the age has to pray for you. At times he passes through such conditions when week after week he spends the entire night in supplicating for your concern, as he actually did during the 1974 trials. I think I could not sleep for a full two months as these months were spent in supplications. So the Khalifa of the age is the person who should partake in your grief as well as in your happiness. He should be the one who is supplicating for your mundane welfare in accordance with the prayer of the Holy Quran: