Transcript Our Responsibility & Obligations as Ahmadi Women towards

Our Responsibility &
Obligations as Ahmadi
Women towards Khilafat
by LA East Lajna
SouthWest Regional Ijtema
2008
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GROUP 1:
 What does our Khalifaatba expect from us?
 Complete submission and obedience
GROUP 2:
 Understand and follow Nizam-e-Jamaat
 Training ourselves and our children
GROUP 3:
 Follow Nizam-e-Wasiyyat
 Financial Sacrifices
GROUP 4:
 Promoting Sisterhood
 Our role in Tabligh
What does our Khalifaatba
expect from us?
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Listen regularly to Friday Sermons
Observing proper Purdah
Good role models as mothers, daughters
and wives
Creating a heaven in our homes so that
message of peace spreads in our
community
Maintaining a strong bond with Khilafat
Be regular in prayers
Sacrifice wealth, property, time & children
Complete Submission &
Obedience
Unquestionable obedience of Khalifa
in everything good
 To be attached to rope of God, you
have to be obedient to the God’s
appointed leader
 Hadiths on obedience
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Understand & Follow Nizam-e-Jamaat
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Believer should follow instructions of God & respect
Nizam-e-Jamaat
Hold on to Nizam-e-Jamaat during interim period
when a Khalifa passes & a new Khalifa is appointed
Believer should whole-heartedly accept decisions of
Qaza committee
Learn to deal with problems through the appropriate
channels
Do not spread discord
Tarbiyyat – Training ourselves &
our children
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All children should do Ba’ait of new Khalifa
Teach children to dedicate their lives to
Ahmadiyyat & in return God blesses us
Habit of saying daily prayers on time – especially
Fajr prayers at early age.
Make children listen to Friday sermons regularly
Keep children closely connected to Jamaat – bring
them to Jamaat events regularly
Develop love of Jamaat in children’s heart & thus
love of Khilafat also
Make an effort to do congregational prayers at
home
Tarbiyyat – Training ourselves &
our children
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Inculcate habit of reading Jamaat books in
children
Hold family discussions at home on
Quran/any Islamic topic – make it a special
day every two weeks
Only under a good mother a child reach
Paradise
Teach your children that Jamaat work &
meetings should take priority over all other
worldly affairs
Pass the sense of financial sacrifice in your
children
Follow Nizam-e-Wasiyyat
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Promised Messiahas said everyone should
enroll in this scheme at an early age
Women should try to include their husbands
and their children
Wasiyyat brings us closer to Khilafat & a
step forward towards achieving Paradise
Wasiyyat & Khilafat are interdependent –
Wasiyyat is a continuous struggle; Khilafat
creates unity; both lead to Jannah
Be obedient to our Khalifaatba & say Labaik
to his call
Do not think of yourself as unworthy!
Financial Sacrifices
Means of moral training. Do not lie
about your incomes.
 Huzuratba said that in this era one type
of Jihad is through financial sacrifice
 Have firm faith that God never wastes
any good deed and any act done to
attain His pleasure
 Our future generations will be blessed
in return for our financial sacrifices
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Promoting Sisterhood
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Customs & languages differ but all bonded as
sisters in same religion
Try to speak in a language we can all
understand or translate; use phrases in each
others language
Attending meetings, participating in activities
will make you feel being part of this sisterhood
Greet everyone warmly on meetings
Accepting and returning sisterly social
invitations that establish mutual respect and
affection.
Praying with and for your sisters that
misunderstandings and cultural differences be
lovingly overcome
Our Role in Tabligh
Observe proper Purdah.
 Give proper answers to any questions
raised by colleagues/friends
 Handling yourself in such a manner
that there is a clear distinction
between an Ahmadi women and other
women
 Always availing every opportunity to
spread the knowledge about
Ahmadiyyat & Islam
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