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The Ultimate Guide to Successful Preaching
Love of God and His Servants is the Ultimate Guide to Successful Preaching
The closing address delivered by Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih IV (ra) at the 43rd annual Jalsa, USA, on June 30, 1991 at Ypsilanti, Michigan.
“Purify yourself before you begin to preach…Without this, all your efforts may remain fruitless and may go in vain.”
“…the ultimate goal of every religion has to be God. The message should be simple. It should begin with God, not by wasting time on ideological arguments.”
“Tell them you are from God, you have come to invite someone to Him with all sincerity. Now when you do that you have to have some documents. Like all the ambassadors have documents to prove their identity…Those documents are only ‘Attributes of Allah’ and signs of His love… So when you walk about the streets of Detroit or Milwaukee or New York or Washington, or any town or village in America, you should walk with this consciousness that you are an ambassador. Not an ambassador of Ahmadiyyat, that can come later, an ambassador of God.”
“When we speak of Dai ilallah (callers to Allah) in America we are only speaking of a few people…Most of us have not gotten involved in this. Most of us are not trained in how to deliver the message. Some people suggest opening schools and starting classes to teach the differences between Christianity and Islam, and between Ahmadiyyat and the rest of the Muslim sects. Of course, this is very essential, ultimately, but not to begin with.”
“Maybe you say: I love God. That is enough. I say you are wrong. You do not love God. If you loved God you would have called others to Him like Hadhrat Muhammadsaw. You would not be able to resist it. You could not live without it. That is true love…Every day brings worse news of what is happening to Americans from every sphere of life. Other religions are only concerned with the number of their followers. They do not care when people lose God and turn away from Him, because that is not their concern…If someone goes wrong in his character, he is traveling away from God. He moves further away while becoming more vicious, more wicked, and more harmful to society as a whole. God is losing him, and you do not care. How could you love God?”
“…if someone is lost to God and…you…share a part of His joy in finding him. That is the meaning of preaching. It is with this spirit that you must preach and when you do this, I assure you, your message will be irresistible. You will be speaking with the power of God.”
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