Religion: Gratitude - A Source Of Blessings

In terms of gratefulness to God, this year grace of God enabled the message of Ahmadiyyat that is true Islam to be taken to every corner of the Earth. This was also achieved in places where the task apparently looks difficult. This was experienced during the tours of Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih and he has spoken about these experiences.

Grace and blessings of God were observed with new glory this year in Europe, Africa, America and Britain and everyone witnessed and experienced this during the UK Jalsa. This should make us further tread the ways of gratefulness and may each triumph and Divine succour take us to renewed stations of gratefulness. It is God’s promise that gratefulness brings greater blessings. It is stated: ‘…If you are grateful, I will, surely, bestow more favours on you…’ (14:8). God certainly bestows and it is man’s own ungratefulness that sometimes leaves him deprived.

God is Self-Sufficient and does not need anyone’s help, He does not need anyone’s blessing and is not in need of man’s gratefulness. He is the Master of all wealth and all power. However, when God bestows His blessings on man, He sees whether man is grateful or not. With reference to Hadhrat Sulaiman (on whom be peace) the Holy Qur’an states: ‘…that He may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful.

And whosoever is grateful is grateful for the good of his own soul; but whosoever is ungrateful, truly my Lord is Self- Sufficient, Generous.’ (27:41) Gratefulness to God is to inculcate demonstration of high morals. It is the misfortune of worldly people that they forget to be grateful to God in prosperous times. The ‘self’ assumes that all success is brought about due to personal hard work and good planning. God states in the Holy Qur’an: ‘…but few of My servants are grateful.’ (34:14)

True believers are always grateful to God. Ahmadis, who have accepted the Imam of the age, are always grateful, indeed, they should be grateful. The shower of God’s blessings encourages them that they are included among those on whom God bestows His grace and they associate every success to Him. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih has seen the management of UK Jalsa as well as the workers tearfully attribute their success to God’s blessings.

As long as we will be grateful servants of God we will experience His blessings. Each person from the Jalsa management, each worker, each attendee of Jalsa and each Ahmadi who participated in the Jalsa via MTA should sing praises of God and prostrate before Him with gratefulness. The more sincere our prostration of gratefulness to God, the greater will be the shower of His blessings and we will gain perception of God’s attributes and thus a new succession of His glorification and gratefulness will start.

Today we can say that it the Ahmadiyya Jama’at that is experiencing showers of Divine blessings. Our opponents, with their hoards of wealth make efforts against us; governments are intent on trying to eliminate us and incite the masses for this purpose. In short no stone is left unturned to finish the Ahmadis. If constant blessings and grace of God was not with us, this worldly effort would have eliminated us a long time ago. These foolish people do not understand that in the current age this is the only community of grateful people which, having raised its head from prostration to God, sees His blessings, and it prostrates before Him once again with gratefulness and in His glorification.

This indeed is the blessed model presented to us by our master, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and it attracts continual blessings of God, Who is the Master of ceaseless treasures. Such blessings are being showered on the Ahmadiyya Jama’at. If only our opponents understood this reality and stopped contending with God.

[Extract from the Sermon delivered by His Holiness Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Community, on Friday the 14th of September 2012]

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The Ahmadiyya Post, Religion. 15 Sept 2012