Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 456
46B m unity and for enlarging its mission- work* This -should be attended by every member of the Community. Besides, friends should also from time to time try to come to Qadian and should write letters to the Khalifatul Masih (successor to the Promised Messiah) every now and then for in this way the Khalifatul Masih feels an inclination to pray for the writer, arid besides the welfare of the different members of the Community also becomes known. The first Khalifa of the Promised Messiah was the late 9 Hazrat Maulavi Noorruddhi Sahib and the present Khalifa is Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Man mud Ahmad Sahib. Some instructions for the new Ahmadis. Si'nce the Promised Messiah was a Messenger of God and the denying of the Apostles of God is a dangerous boldness and deprives a man of faith, hence according to the Quran, the Traditions of the seal of Prophets and the sayings of the Promised Messiah, it is the duty of every Ahmadi that he should pray under the leadership of Ahmadi Imarns only. But in those places where Ahmadi Imams cannot be found, he should offer his pray- ers alone and should pray to God to give him a Jammat or Society of his own, because a true believer can never remain alone. Similarly, it has been prohibited that Ahamadis should give their daughters to marriage to non-Ahmadis, for wives are generally influenced by their husbands and thus it is making a soul apostate. Likewise, Ahmadis should not attend the funerl service of non-Ahmadis, for it would amount to interceding with God for a man who has proved himself an enemy by denying and opposing the Promised Messiah.