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THE WEEKLY
www.alhakam.org AL HAKAM | Friday 21 October 2022 | Issue CCXL Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC), 22 Deer Park Road, London, SW19 3TL, UK info@alhakam.org | ISSN 2754-7396
The Ahmadiyya Mission to America: A brief look at the pre- and post-9/11 challenges
Hadith-e-Rasul – Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa
Knowledge that benefits ّٰ ُ ُ َ َ َ َ َ َ ْ َ ّ ﻋن جابِ ٍر ﻗال ﻗال رﺳﻮل ا�� ِ� ﺻلﻰ ّ َ ْ َ ُ ّٰ َ ْ ّٰ ُ وﺳلم َﺳ��ا ا�� َ� ِ�ل ًما نا ِف ًﻌا ا��� ِ�لي ِﻪ ٰ ْ ُ َ ََ َ ُ َ َ ّ �وﺗﻌ ّﻮذوا بِا�� ِ� ِم ْن ِ�ل ٍم �� ﻳ َ ْنﻔ Hazrat Jabirra narrates that Allah’s Messengersa said: “Ask Allah for knowledge that benefits and seek refuge with Allah from knowledge that is of no benefit.” (Sunan Ibn Majah, Kitab al-Dua, Hadith 3843)
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words
As Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Vaa arrives back from America, we take a brief look at what makes the Ahmadiyya message to the USA so special.
Preoccupation with worldly affairs results in a loss in the hereafter
“It is now clear that the attacks on the American homeland and the responses to them have created a new prism of global affairs, a tension between a state and a religion that plays out on an international level as never before. Relations between the world’s undisputed superpower and the world of 1.4 billion Muslim believers can only be viewed as inexorably changed since 9-11.” This is an analysis by Peter W Singer, a foreign affairs analyst and director of the Twenty-first Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institute. Published five years after the infamous 9/11 attacks, it remains true today, twenty-one years on. Although the 9/11 attacks have worked as a turning point in souring the relationship between Islam and America – or the entire West, for that matter – history cannot be ignored when it tells a different story. One might agree with Springer in that the relations between America and Islam have “inexorably changed since 9-11”,1 but Maxime Rodinson speaks loud enough to catch our attention when he says that “Western Christendom perceived the
A young man presented himself before the Promised Messiah, on whom be peace, and began to relate his story of the worldly misfortunes with which he was confronted, as well as his countless woes and sorrows. The Promised Messiahas advised him at length and said: “To become fully engrossed in such matters causes a person to be deprived in the hereafter. A believer must not wail and mourn over their circumstances in this way.” Then the young man began to weep loudly and profusely at which the Promised Messiahas expressed extreme displeasure and disapproval. He said: “Enough! It is my belief that such weeping leads a person to hell. In my estimation, tears which fall out of grief and sorrow for the world are a fire that burns the very one who sheds them. My heart turns cold when I witness the state of such a person who mourns, longing for this carrion of a world.”
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(Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, Malfuzat, Vol. 2, p. 43)