Voice of British Muslim Women

Rafena Ahmed, Cheam

In the current scientific era with all the intellectual advancement, humankind seems to have an answer for everything happening to it and around it whether it be for its self-sustenance or optimal physical and mental growth and comfort.

Being in the higher order of creation, human race thinks it has got itself into a supreme state of finding or seeking deep satisfaction by using its cognition to find a solution for everything it feels it needs an answer for, whether it be acquiring more money or endless comfort. This quite often leads to a sense of obsession and deep dissatisfaction no matter how much people are able to achieve their idea and criteria of ‘perfection’.

When humankind is so engrossed in knowing about the past, finding about the future, lost in the world of finance, medical science working on how every cell in the body works, at such a time wanting to know Who created everything or sent His special people, Prophets who then had Successors, Khulafa, (plural of Khalifa) would be the last thing on its mind,  these matters would just sound like myths and fairy tales.

Also, the idea that the present is inherently better than the past and that morality is somehow based on science. Do we stop to think though that today is going to be the past in 100 years, so today’s morality is going to be backward then why should we follow it?

Morality is not necessarily timebound. It is not something which for example improves over time, people can enhance their morals, but they can also get worse. Our God alone guides us, so it is prudent to follow the teaching of God Who is the Architect of our soul even if this teaching came 1400 years ago.

So, in a world full of unhealed people where are my rights? Where is justice? Equality? When humankind is troubled with such questions, who does it turn to? Most certainly Ahmadi Muslims turn to a man of God who we have as our Khalifa.

I do not have to shout out my worries to anyone, I pray and write to my beloved Huzoor or if I don’t find peace in my heart or if I find that my heart’s unsettled with any questions I pray and I write and submit my question to my beloved Huzoor. The happiness I find when I am in front of or in the presence of my beloved Huzoor is an indescribable peaceful and content feeling.

As Lao Tzu, the  Chinese philosopher said, if there is to be peace in the world there must be peace in the nations,  if there is to be peace in the nations there must be peace in the cities if there is to be peace in the cities there must be peace between neighbors if there is to be peace between neighbors there must be peace in the home, if there is to be peace in the home there must be peace in the heart.

And this peace of heart is what my beloved Huzoor, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) gives me because he gives me the attachment, I need to my God so I can try and fulfill my true purpose of life.