Souvenir on 50th Jalsa Salana USA — Page 14
SOME REFLECTIC)NS BY SAllIB7AIJA MIRZA MCZAf~FAR AHMAD. AMIR USA LET US ALWAYS REMAIN WORTHY RECIPIENT OF PROMISED MESSIAH'S (AS) FERVENT PRAYERS FOR THE GLORY OF ISLAM The Precious Legacy of Sacrifice needs to be Preserved and Broadened As we ce l ebra te th e 50th US Jal sa Salana during th e l as t weekend of Jun e 1998 , o ur mind goes back to the year 1 889 when th e P ro mi sed Messiah, under divine command, c l aimed to be th e Mahdi and th e lat er day R eformer predicted by all princip a l rel i- g io n s. H ow utt e rl y mode s t indeed was th e start when a feebl e lonely human voice ro. e from a Liny unknown village of Qadian , co mpletely c ul off from th e re s t of th e world with neither rail or road co nn ec ti o n nor eve n a po s t or tel eg raph office or a n ewspape r. It was in thi s unhelpful envi- ronment th a t th e Promi sed M ess iah (AS) proclaimed that Allah ha s r evea led to him that: " I s hall ca u se thy message to reach th e co rn e rs of th e ea rth " Today that lo n ely voice resounds a ll over the world with in c r eas in g s tr e n gt h and v i gor. A 24 h ou rs telecast of Muslim Television Ahmadiyya ( MTAI ), energ i zes li s- t ene rs to H adhrat Khalifatul Ma s ih TV 's (A BA ) sermo n s, addresses and o th er programs Ahmadiyya J amaa l is n ow es tabli shed in 1 53 co untri es and all thi s globa l progress h as been achieved despite desperate oppos iti on by so many - including powerful and resourceful governme nt s. Few may now remember that at th e first Jalsa in Qadian in the year 1 891, the total attendance was only 75, and h ere we are, wor ld apart from Qadian, ce l ebrat in g our Jalsa with over 7000 participants in our beautiful Baitur Rahman Mosque. It wi ll be remembered that at the l ast J a l sa Salana held in Rabwah in 1 983 the attendance was over a quarter million w ho were housed and se r ved meals by a very l arge num - ber of volun t eers in Jamaat's best traditions. - 1l agha:H. !nshaalluh.