The institution since its establishment has offered the world and humanity a golden principle, which guaranteed peaceful co-existence and prosperity.
Source/Credit: The Ghanaian Chronicle
By Mohammed Awal | June 3, 2015
Accra — A sea of colour and merrymaking heralded the Accra International Conference Centre on Sunday, as thousands of Ahmadi Muslims thronged to observe the 'Khilafat' (caliphate) Day.
The day, which is celebrated yearly by the Ahmadi fraternity to draw the attention of its members, as well as the general public to the importance of 'Khilafat' (caliphate) as an institution in Islam, was marked with a symposium themed: "The Institution of 'Khilafat in Islam."
'Khilafat' literally means succession in Arabic and it is the genesis of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community founded by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in 1889.
Addressing the gathering, the Ameer and Missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana, Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih, said that 'Khilafat' as a spiritually ordained institution is here in the form of Khilafat Ahmadiyya.
The institution, he added, since its establishment has offered the world and humanity a golden principle, which guaranteed peaceful co-existence and prosperity. Today (Khilafat Day), Ameer Bin Salih mentioned, would go down in history as the day Ahmadiyya Muslim Community decided to come out to "announce and expose" to humanity the existence of the true 'Khilafat' in Islam.
To the doubting Thomases, he proclaimed "that Khilafat which is spiritually ordained by Allah is here in the form of 'Khilafat Ahmadiyya.'" He, therefore, called on Ahmadi Muslims to rise up to incite people to join the Ahmadiyya fraternity.
"We have recoiled for far too long-the time to move out to propagate the Ahmadiyya faith is now," declared Ameer Bin Salih, stressing that it was a clarion call to all Ahmadis to work hard to disseminate "this undoubting truth" to the Muslim world. He also asked other Muslim sects to do away with enmity and embrace the true Khilafat.
Maulvi Hameed Ullah Zafar, Principal, Jamiatul Mubashireen-Ghana, said the re-establishment of Khilafat amongst the Muslims was one of the greatest challenges facing the Muslims community.
Present day Islam, he stated, was troubled with internal strife and external intrigues. "It is in dire need of a leader, a man of integrity who would take charge of institution of Khilafat and under Divine guidance to lead the Muslim nations," he added.
'Khilafat,' Maulvi Zafar said was a spiritual dominion of Allah Almighty and not by any political or pseudo-religious movement.
"Without it (Khilafat), there is no life, no joy and no spirituality. And under the benign shade of Khilfat, we are able to enjoy all the blessing of this life with a sure guarantee of endless blessings in the hereafter. Khalifa is, indeed, bliss unspeakable. It is a mine of bounties which can never be exhausted.
"By the Grace of Allah, we know it for certain and believe it with profound conviction that this Khilafat, which has been established in Jama'at Ahmadiyya is actually the second phase of the same Khilafat - e-Rashida - which was established following the demise of the Holy Prophet Mohammed," said Maulvi Zafar.
Maulvi Nawaz Ahamad, addressing "The Future of the Islamic Insitution of Khilfat, vis a vis the Khilafat of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission," said Khilfat as it exists among Ahmadis was a force for good in the world, as it exemplified once again, an institution grounded in the precepts of prophethood.
Ahmadis, he observed, considered themselves very fortunate to have witnessed the revival of Khilafat following the arrival of the prophet of this age.
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