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A Spiritual Note
Edition 2 - 1 July 2005 - 24 Jumada al-Awwal 1426
As-salaamu 'alaikum (Peace be upon you).
Our Spiritual Note for this week has been taken from the book Instructions and Guidance for the Ahmadiyya Jama'at by Maulana Muhammad 'Ali.
Responding to One Will and One Voice
"The characteristic of every living body is that as soon as it wills to do something all its organs set to work towards that end. As soon as you start the engine of a machine, its various parts and components come into action and begin their allotted work. This is also the sign of a living community, that on receiving the call from one source all its workers responsible for that task set about their work. This is known as the organisation of a community. The community in which there is no organisation, whose members do not set about exerting their all for achieving its objective after having heard the one voice, that is not a living community. If the various components of a body do not work subject to one will, it cannot be called a living body but is merely a heap of separate parts.
Therefore, as a community our first and foremost need is that we must come together to respond to one voice, and when that voice calls us to the attainment of the objective of our existence, we all rush immediately, forgetting everything else, and each one sets about his work. At that time our individual will must be subordinated, and all our efforts must be directed towards the fulfilment of another will, in obedience to which the community should come into action."
(End of quote)
Khuda Haafiz,
Riaz Ahmadali
Institute for Islamic Studies and Publications
Paramaribo, Suriname
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