Khilafat Centenary Souvenir 1908-2008 — Page 16
Khilafat Centenary is tied up with the progress being made by the Community, the only Jama'at of believers which is so strongly knit together by virtue of the blessings of divinely-established Khilafat. The interests of the Islamic Ummah have repeatedly been defended and served to an unmatched extent again and again in the past by the efforts of Khilafat- e-Ahmadiyya. If only the general Muslim world would open their eyes and see, acknowledge and join in these efforts rather than oppose or behave heedlessly towards them. How different would the world have been if the Muslims had paid heed, for example, to the advice of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih li ra when he addressed the world's Muslims when efforts were under way for the creation of Israel on lands owned and occupied by Muslims living in Palestine. Then, at the time of the first Gulf War in 1991, when the whole Muslim world had apparently gone mute and lost its voice altogether, there was one, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih IVrta who laid bare the truth behind the events facing the Muslim world and the needed responses from them. In 17 Friday Sermons, he fearlessly attacked those who were set to wreak havoc upon the Muslim world and repeatedly advised the Muslims to adopt the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and the Holy Propheraw and try to resolve their disputes themselves rather than rely on outsiders. But the Muslim world refused to heed the Khalifa's advice and now we can all see the consequences being played out. Today, again, we see Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya taking on one and all who dare to attack Islam or its Holy Founder or its Holy Book, taking them on with the might of reason and argument and the written and spoken word, not with threats of violence and murder and mayhem. Upon the publication of defamatory cartoons of the Holy Prophet Muharnmad• aw , Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad aba guided the Muslim world to what their response needed to be - recommending that all Muslims explain to the world the beautiful life history of the Holy Propheraw and explain to them these unmatched beauties, doing so widely and repeatedly, while avoiding completely any acts of aggression and disorder which Islam neither benefits from nor sanctions. Again, when the Pope stoked up controversy by labeling Islam's teachings and practices as being coercive and unacceptable Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih y aba shed light on the true teachings of Islam and urged all Muslims to do the same, through verbal and written means, reminding everyone that this was the real answer and not violence and disorder. Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya has worked tirelessly and continues to do so today and is committed to doing so for all time to safeguard, enhance and establish the interests of unity and peace for Muslims in particular and the whole of humanity in general. No other institution in the world exceptjama'at- e-Ahmadiyya possesses the combination of organization, resources and spiritual guidance with which to best serve the interests of unity among the Muslim Ummah. How indeed could any other entity except a rightly-guided Khilafat possess such a combination of earthly and heavenly blessings? When Allah has blessed Ahmadis alone with the unifying force of Khilafat, it is they alone who are blessed with the ways and means to further these unifying tasks. And furthermore it is these same Ahmadis who are loyal to the God-appointed Khalifa and thus merit and receive the Divine help and guidance needed to achieve such daunting and otherwise unattainable goals, such as Muslim Television Ahmadiyya. An Example of God's Divine Help and Power Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (MTA), is the world's only 24-hour, 7-days-a-week Islamic satellite station reaching every continent on the Earth. Transmitting in multiple languages with both live and pre-recorded programming - including the weekly Friday sermons of the Khalifa from wherever he may be in the world - MTA has educated, amazed and confounded the Muslim world since its inception in 1995. Opponents of Ahmadiyyat regularly decry the fact that the Saudis and other oil-rich Muslim nations with all their billions of dollars have been unable to do what a tiny, seemingly insignificant Islamic Community has been able to do.