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Obedience to Khilafat and its Blessings

Tahmeena Tahir

Most of us have had the opportunity to meet with Hazuraba and receive guidance and advice on a myriad of topics. From education to family matters, Hazuraba takes the time from his busy daily activities to provide us with reassurance. But how many of us take this advice and turn these words into actions? And why is it so important? Everyone will tell you the same thing; acting on the words and guidance of the Khalifa-e-Waqt is purely a source of countless blessings. No matter how people are being tried and tested in their lives, the words of our Khalifa bring immediate ease to those who are suffering, happiness to those who are sad and peace to those who are in anguish. This article presents several instances where obedience to khilafat has brought ease, success and wisdom to a few individuals.

A Change in Circumstance

Hazuraba mentioned a quote from the Holy Qur’an in his Friday sermon of 7th January 2022, stating that those who offer fnancial sacrifces, God accepts their efforts and bestows His blessings upon them. At the time this Friday Sermon was delivered, I was, and still am, a full time Mother, prioritising the upbringing of my young son in place of my teaching career. I had dabbled in private tutoring, but this had recently stopped due to prior commitments from my students, consequentially leaving me with no independent income. Alhamdolillah, this is not a huge burden on us as a family, but at the time of hearing Hazuraba sermon regarding seeking God’s pleasure through fnancial sacrifces, it suddenly occurred to me that I would not be able to contribute to the blessed scheme of Waqfe-Jadid, or any other chanda schemes for that matter. This caused great anguish in my heart, and I remained upset and in quiet contemplation for a few days as to what I could do to alter my circumstances. I realised that the only thing to do would be to pray, as without the support of Allah, no outcome would achieve its full beneft. I followed up my prayers with a letter to Hazuraba , explaining my circumstances and my desire to pay chanda independently. Hazuraba has the closest relationship to Allah than any other living person today, so I knew that his prayers would be more likely to be accepted, and sure enough they were. In a matter of days of sending my letter, my circumstances changed, and I was able to resume tutoring on a weekly basis, which generated some small income. Even more surprisingly, I received a generous and unexpected monetary gift from a family member. The concerns I had about an independent income had melted away and I was now able to pay the chanda that I desired, Alhamdolillah!

Alhamdolillah, I am very fortunate to have received many blessings by following the direction of Hazuraba, and this account only shows one of the many ways in which obedience to the Khalifa has had a positive impact on my life.

A Miraculous Offer

After I got married, it was initially my plan to go back to Belgium (my home country before marriage) and complete my university degree of which one and a half years was left. After being blessed to have a mulaqat with Hazuraba , Hazuraba hinted to me that it would be better to stay in the UK with my husband. I decided to act on this and stay in the UK, even though it was diffcult for me as I would miss out on an important part of my degree as well as potentially not being able to complete

it. Alhamdolillah, and by the grace of Allah I got admission in a university in the UK to complete my studies and miraculously they accepted me into the third-year programme even though I have not even completed my second year in Belgium! This was the sheer blessings of obedience to the Khalifa-e-Waqt.

An Unexpected Meeting

We were living in Georgia for many years when my husband’s project suddenly came to an end. We had moved back to the UK awaiting a new project. Hazuraba in a mulaqat indicated to us to go back to Georgia. With this instruction in mind, we were eager to act on the words of our Khalifa and repacked and set off back to Georgia. At this time my husband had no job, we were living off our savings and he was starting his own company with a couple of other people. During this time, we were very blessed to take part in many Jama’at activities and made many tabligh contacts who were very interested in the Jama’at. Aside from this, due to our obedience to khilafat, shortly before the frst I lockdown, my husband was travelling and met an old colleague in an airport. he fascinating aspect is that my husband went to take a seat whilst waiting for the connecting ight and happened to sit right next to his old colleague. Shortly after this, the same colleague offered my husband a job. This was nothing but God’s blessings coupled with Hazuraba prayers and guidance. Alhamdolillah.

A Practical Solution

It’s not a ma or incident, but I derive beneft from it every day. I couldn’t read or write Urdu, and to me it seemed like an impossible task. Growing up in this fast-paced life, we all want everything to happen at the snap of our fngers. o, after a month or two it seemed like I had made no progress at all. I was very worried about it and luckily, I had a personal mulaqat with Hazuraba. I told Hazuraba my worry, he said “there’s no need to worry. Take one blank A4 page and copy Al-Fazl down up exactly as it is and stop once you fll the page. o this every day. I started doing it, and every day I would copy it down. It helped me in 2 major ways:

Increased my knowledge, as I went through pages and pages of Al azl about different topics related to Islam and Jama’at

Improved my overall Urdu level, especially my writing not handwriting unfortunately I knew which word should have a ہ or which word should have a ح - helped distinguish between the letters and gave me a good understanding of root words.

And before I knew it, I was reading/writing Urdu. Alhamdolilah. Every time I ever read a book or passage in Urdu, I’m grateful to beloved Hazuraba, because I was genuinely concerned, but in that Mulaqat I got the remedy and of course Hazuraba prayers with it, and so I overcame a big fear of mine.

“He shall establish brotherhood with me (i.e., Ahmad), obeying me in all good things, and frmly adhere to these rules until the last breadth of his life.” his is the th condition of Bai’at – a spiritual contract between an individual and God. We see how this obedience to khilafat results in a garden of blessings that we cannot even imagine. At times this immediate obedience may not be easy but forever giving blessings. May Allah enable us all to always keep attached to Khilafat-e- Ahmadiyya and reap the blessings of respecting and obeying the words of our Khalifa. Ameen.

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