Ahmadiyyat Destiny and Progress — Page 44
27 نَْمَدُہٗ وَنُصَلَّْ عَٰ رَسُوْلِہِ الْکَرِیْم بِسْمِ ہللاِ الرَّحْٰنِ الرَّحِیْم The Life and Purpose of Ahmadiyyat Inaugural address of the Jalsa Salana, 26 December 1938. After the recitation of tashahhud, ta‘awudh and Surah Fatihah , Huzoor said: I begin by saying assalamu alaikum to all our friends who have gathered here today and particularly those whom I have not had the chance to meet with yet. I thank God Almighty, Who through His grace and bounty, has enabled us to congregate again in this town so that we may glorify His name and manifest the greatness of His faith. He has chosen [Qadian] as the seat of the propagation of Islam. I pray that our convention is purged of every type of conceit, pretence, hypocrisy, cowardice, frailty, pride and arrogance. May God engage our hearts and minds with such thoughts, intentions, schemes and endeavours as accord with His will and as are worthy of His pleasure. The length of 27 Ibid. p. 1 [Publishers]