Fazl-e-Umar — Page 356
Fazle Umar 356 voluntary consecration of properties by individual Ahmadis to the needs of Islam in the widest sense of the term. The institution was promulgated by him in his book, ‘Al-Wasiyyat’ (The Will) in 1905, and since then willing away portions of properties and income to the Ahmadiyya organisation has become a common practice with Ahmadis. “Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] has announced in his address that the social order of Islam built on the pillars of its economic teaching will continue to grow. It will grow through the Wasiyyat, the institution of willing away properties and incomes inaugurated by the Founder of Ahmadiyyat in 1905. The institution of Wasiyyat, therefore, answers the question which many Muslims and Non- Muslims seem to be asking today: Is Islam progressive? It also answers the wider question: Is religion progressive? “The Ahmadiyya solution of the problem of inequality, it is as well to say, will spread in the world at the rate at which Ahmadiyyat spreads. The pace cannot be forced, as Ahmadiyyat is obliged under Islamic teaching to use only one method for its propagation — the method of argument and honest conviction. Those who accept the general principle of this solution but think its establishment throughout the world will take too long can assist in the solution by applying its principles in their own way. “Until however, the scheme of Wasiyyat becomes reasonably effective, another scheme known to Ahmadis as the Tehrike Jadeed (The New Scheme) will take its place. This scheme was announced by Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] in a series of Friday sermons in 1934. Its nineteen clauses may be summarised as an organised effort for the promotion of discipline, simplicity and voluntary sacrifice by Ahmadis for the conservation of a Central Fund, devoted ultimately to strengthening and promoting the work which Ahmadiyyat is doing for the