Only Allah Has the Power to Help | Ahmadiyya | Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad Khalifatul Masih V (aba)

An extract from the Friday Sermon delivered by the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) on 28 November 2014.

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Summary:

The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said: ‘It should always be remembered that only Allah the Exalted has real authority to grant succour when help is solicited.’ That is, when help is needed it is only God, Who has the real power to help, and He provides it. This is a most significant point which a true believer should always have in view, whether the help sought is on personal level or communal. But it is seen that in practice people do not pay as much attention to this as they should. Most of us say that our needs are met by the grace of God. However, if we ponder over our words in-depth we will note that we consider various means as the sources of accomplishing our tasks.

Hazrat Musleh Maud (may Allah be pleased with him) recounted some incidents in this regard and highlighted that man thinks that he attains his objective through help and aid of assorted people or through his own elbow grease. This indeed is how man initially thinks. Even if he meets all his needs using his strength his knowledge and his intellect he feels that he resolved all his problems with his competence and strength and is proud and rather bumptious that he did not have to seek anyone’s help. However, there are times when he cannot manage on his own and needs someone’s help. He seeks help from his family and relatives and they help him out. This makes him realises that family and relatives are a good thing. Then there are times when his family and relatives cannot help him or do not help him. He looks to his friends and acquaintances and he seeks their help and they help him. He realises that friends and acquaintances are good and are helpful in times of need. There also comes a time when his friends make their excuses whether they are warrantable excuses or they simply want to get rid of him, but they cannot help him. Man turns to the community (jama’at) that he belongs to and the community helps him out. When his task is fulfilled he realises that it is good to be associated with a community and his affiliation with it grows. Although it is also seen that at times some people stumble simply because the Jama’at cannot help them when they ask for it. A time comes in the life of some when family, friends and due to some constraints even their community cannot help them. This is when they turn to government and government helps them. At that time government is the be all and end all for these people. However, a time comes when even the government cannot be of help to them and they feel they are not getting their rights. This is when they goes to charitable and philanthropic people who help them out. Man thinks that charitable and philanthropic organisations of the world helped him out while no one else did and had they not helped him out he would have been deprived of his rights.

Nowadays many human rights organisations work on both national and international level and engage in legal battles with governments. They can and do put international pressure on governments. Some of these organisations do very good work. However, it cannot be denied that a time comes when neither one’s efforts and plans avail nor help of family, friends, and community, government or human rights organisations. Yet, if one still attains one’s objective one thinks that the source of success is unseen. As much as one believes in help from the unseen, one attributes success to God.

Speaking of charitable and philanthropic organisations, Ahmadis nowadays know about them well as they are stuck in different countries of the world waiting for their asylum cases. Many such organisations, in fact one large organisation which works under the auspices of UN tries to help, but at times governments do not listen to them either.

Anyhow, when one’s tasks are accomplished in such circumstances one feels the help has come from the unseen and if one believes in God one considers that the help is from God. With complete faith in God, one also attributes success of that task to God which is accomplished through external help. One also knows very well that help of family, friends, community, government and charitable/ philanthropic organisations was in fact from God and behind all the apparent sources of help was the hand of God.

حضرت مسیح موعود علیہ السلام ایک جگہ فرماتے ہیں کہ:

’’استعانت کے متعلق یہ بات یاد رکھنا چاہئے کہ اصل استمداد کا حق اللہ تعالیٰ ہی کو حاصل ہے‘‘۔ (ملفوظات جلد2 صفحہ53۔ ایڈیشن 1985ء مطبوعہ انگلستان)

یعنی تمہیں اپنے کاموں کی تکمیل کے لئے اگر کسی کی مدد کی ضرورت ہے تو وہ صرف خدا تعالیٰ کی ذات ہے جو حقیقی رنگ میں تمہاری مدد کر سکتی ہے، مدد کرنے کی طاقت رکھتی ہے اور مدد کرتی ہے۔

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