Tarbiyyat Department Plans from 2006 to 2010

Time commitment required by a local Nazim: 30 min a day

How can you reach us: by telephone or email

Estimated response time for phone and email inquiries: within 24-48 hrs

How do you win Alme Inami?

1. Number of classes (attendance weighted on a per capita basis) and
2. Percentage of Khuddam who attend Jumma
3. Regularity in reporting
4. Percentage of inactive Khuddam contacted for non-Jamaat related matters (are they in the system, intimate, etc)
5. Extent of practical efforts (report content)
6. Completion of projects (tools to help with Salaat)

Local Implementation Plan:

(This is a plan a local Nazim can use to roll out and achieve the goals and objectives of the department and be able to add flexibility for local flavor)

Communication Plan:

(This is a plan you will actively implement throughout the year to execute on your objectives.)

Resources:

Challenges/Advice:

• Be tactful when delivering your message.  As an administrator it is very easy to make an agenda driven call Khuddam and strictly ask for numbers/facts/figures, etc.  Remember that we need to create a channel of communication where every Khuddam feels like we are someone they can talk to about anything. 
• Always give others the benefit of the doubt.  Forgive errors and shortcomings.  Be realistic – there is no compulsion in religion.

Historical Reference of Department:

-Establishment of the SALAT

The Holy Quran does not say  “ Yowadun nas-salata” or “Yosalun nas-salata” , but, says “ Yuqeemu nas-salta” which means offering Salat with all its conditions. This means offering congregational SALAT and offering SALAT with utmost sincerity and devotion.  Just offering the SALAT is not enough but offering them in congregation is important and offering without any shortcomings. Islam calls not for offering the SALAT but establishing the SALAT – and hence it is incumbent upon every Ahmadi to seek joy not just in offering SALAT but establishing the institution of SALAT. So offering the SALAT individually is not good enough, but lead others in offering the SALAT as well. Ones family – wife and children also need to be regular in offering their SALAT.  Some people even though are regular at offering their SALAT, but are not concerned about their wife and children. If you are sincere of heart it is not possible that you will tolerate your spouse, children, brothers and sisters, not offering their SALAT regularly. One of our deceased friends in the community would not allow his son to subscribe to our newspaper Al-fazal. His son wrote to me a letter about it. I inquired from him about the sons complaint and his response was to offer his son religious freedom so, that His son can develop his own individual thoughts. I wrote back to him saying that you might have given him complete religious freedom by shielding him from Al-fazal – How are you going to protect him from being influenced by his Professors, the books he reads himself, from the company of friends. When all these external factors are shaping his opinion and thought  - do you want to allow him to take poison, yet prevent him from having its antidote. So as I was explaining that establishing prayers is essential, offering your SALAT, making other to comply with, offering your SALAT with sincerity, religious zeal and fervor, with proper Ablution , in congregation , and with all the required conditions. Our Friends/members of our community should pay special attention to towards this. I am sorry to find out about some people that even though are regular in SALAT themselves – their children are not.  It is of paramount importance that kids be made regular in their offerings of SALAT. Children should be disciplined for not offering their SALAT regularly – but their pocket money should not be withheld. However the parent can make a pre-condition that until the child gets regular in his/her SALAT of not, communicating to him. However if a child proclaims that he or she is not a Muslim than the parent cannot enforce it. As long he or she is Ahamdi Muslim he or she, should be accountable for the SALAT and disciplined accordingly when not regular, and be told that you cannot be a part of my household until you get regular in SALAT.

Selection taken from Mashal-e-Rah, translated by Masaf Daood Sahib of Detroit, and reviewed by Munawar Saeed Sahib for Tarbiyyat department Majlis Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya, USA (Nov 2001 – Dec 2002). 

-Prayer is the fountainhead of spirituality

More important is the regularity in prayers. Keeping your beard is a visual, appearance driven thing. Prayer is the real source/fountainhead of spirituality and a means of attaining nearness to ones creator. You are aware of the fact that eating/taking poison is a fatal act – and certain death is the outcome. The Spiritual analogy to this is not offering ones prayers. So not offering ones prayers is not in anyway less lethal than taking poison.  The key difference is in the outcome is delayed until the life after death. This poison will condemn a person to the fires of hell eternally. In this State/fire a person will experience death, but will not be able to die. No poison is lethal or deadlier than not offering ones prayers – because unlike other lethal poison (that immediately succumb you to death), the lethal effects of not offering ones prayers are a lifetime of death and torture.

In Holy Quran – God says “Quranic Translation ”.  Humankind will experience the pain and agony of death and torture. All the sins will manifest themselves in torture and death and will inflict individual death for each one of them.

The agony and pain of torture and punishment will not make him/her less sensitive so as to not feel the recurring pain of death. Every weakness will be individually accounted for and will inflict suffering and death on the individual. Each individual prayer will be accounted for and subjected to punishment for any omissions.  Similarly death will be inflicted for other evils deeds such as telling lies, dishonesty, and lack of integrity. So to sum-up not offering ones prayers is such an evil that pushes mankind into the darkness of hell for eternity. Avoid making such a folly and get regular in your prayers.

Translated by Masaf Daood Sahib of Detroit,  and reviewed by Anwer Mahmood Khan Sahib, National Secertary Tehrik-e-Jadid, for Tarbiyyat department Majlis Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya, USA (Nov 2001 – Dec 2002). 

-We cannot be successful unless we realize the significance of prayer (Supplication)

Members of the jama`at in general and youth in particular should make praying (dua) and offering salat a routine.

-Significance of prayer (Dua):

“----Thus along with our own efforts we need to pray to Allah saying “ O Lord! We have tried to the best of our abilities and it seems that these tasks are beyond us; only You can help us fulfill our duties”.

You must fulfill your obligations. If you keep on praying, I will not need to deliver any sermons for your guidance. If you are aware of deficiencies and are praying to Allah to help remove them, then these prayers will most definitely suffice. If you are delinquent in saying daily salat, however, you feel sorry for it and are praying to Allah to remove this deficiency. Allah will surely eliminate it and help you become punctual in salat. In any case, you will not be able to benefit from Allah’s help unless you bring about a major change in yourself.

-Believe in enthusiasm, sincerity, and prayers (dua):

If you have enthusiasm and sincerity and you pray then you will most definitely succeed, otherwise there is no other way to achieve success. Thus it is imperative that you believe in enthusiasm, sincerity and the power of prayer. I want to emphasize to the jamaat in general and the youth in particular that they need to make prayers a habit. Our ancestors who have seen the time of Promised Messiah (AS) had a habit of praying. Now the youth have to follow their footsteps and make prayers customary. They need to habitually prostrate and cry in front of Allah. If they do this with complete sincerity, faith and enthusiasm then they will attract divine help which will not only improve their condition but also lead towards avenues of success.  (Speech delivered on Dec. 17^th. 1948, published in Al Fazl)

Translated by Mahmood Qureshi Sahib of Detroit, and reviewed by Bismil Sahib of Detroit, for Tarbiyyat department Majlis Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya, USA (Nov 2001 – Dec 2002). 

Thoughtful Quotes on Department

• The internal Jihad we all have is Tarbiyyat.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Where do I get the Tarbiyyat Salaat Survey?

A: Mkausa.org under documents or email at, or call Saleem Qadir at 408 204-3740

Q: Where is the Khuddam Scenario classes?

A:  The scenario document will be distributed

Tarbiyyat Classes

**Break up into groups and answer some scenario questions. Now’s the time to be open and honest to try to figure out what you would say or do. With each scenario try to list what some of the dangers are, ways to prevent it and the possible solution for each situation. Once you’ve completed your cards you can write your own scenarios anonymously on index cards for the group to address and discuss.

Definitions:

Active Khadim:

• Actively participates in programs and activities of the Majlis and Jama’at
• Attends meetings in the Majlis and Jama’at
• Pays mandatory chandas of MKA and Jama’at

Inactive Khadim:  an inactive Khadim has the following characteristics:

• Does not participate in programs and activities of the Majlis and Jama’at
• Does no attend meetings in the Majlis and Jama’at
• Does not pay chandas of MKA and Jama’at
• Always manages to excuse himself from participation in Jama’at events.
• Seldom or never comes to the Mosque.

<Each Mohtamim is expected to perform set of duties each month to improve his department based on the mandatory objectives set with the consultation of reporting Naib Sadr

and/or Sadr Sb.>

* Mandatory objective(s) for a Mohtamim/Department that will be part of the monthly Scorecard

List of documents available online ( www.mkausa.org ): 1. Step-by-step guides 2. Alm-e-Inami Criteria



 

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Assalamo Alaikum , I would like to Thank and Congratulate MKA USA for getting this Fantastic website with wealth of resources not for the Khuddam of USA only but for all Khuddam world wide. Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Fiji Salutes MKA USA for this wonderfull job well done..Jazakmullah.

Ashfaaq Ahmad Khan - May 14

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