After reciting the Tashahhud, the Ta’uz and the first chapter Al Fatiha of the Holy Quran, Hazrat Amirul Mo’emenine, Zafrullah Domun said:

Today is the first day of Muharram 1431 of the New Islamic year. I pray and hope that this New Year will be a year of great blessings for the Islamic world.  Next Friday will be the last Friday of 2009. Where some people use this end of year to take stock of their achievements during the year, others are very much involved in what is known in common parlance as the end of the year festivities. However in Islam nothing of that sort is expected. During the past year the whole world has been engulfed into an economic crisis of an unprecedented kind. Although some persons are talking of recovery, there are many who are advising against an unfounded optimism. There are even others who are saying that we should even beware of a new crisis. By the Grace of Allah Mauritius has more or less weathered this storm and we are amongst the rare countries of the world to show a minor but positive rate of economic growth. Let us pray and hope that economically speaking the coming year will be much better than the one which is coming to an end.

Around the world and even in the most important economy of the world namely the United States of America many people are still reeling under the consequences of this economic crisis. Millions of people have lost their jobs and many thousands have lost their houses as well. Although this crisis started in America yet its consequences have reverberated around almost all countries around the world. To compound all these problems the whole world is now facing a climate change catastrophe of unprecedented proportions if some measures are not taken to avoid it on time.

Most ordinary people are not aware of what goes on in the world and they do not even have the time to care. They are so engrossed in their routine daily grind that they do not have the time or the interest to know what is going on. In this age we have lots of ways to educate ourselves about the world around us. Television, radio and the internet even the print media has a great role to play in informing us about what is going on. We all should become involved citizens and try to make the world a better place to live or at least not to leave it in a worst state than we found it. It is not my intention to give you details about all these catastrophic problems but when we see what is happening we cannot ignore what Hazrat Masih Maood, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad,the Promised Messiah and Mahdi said                                                              almost one hundred years ago. He said:

"Remember, God has informed me of many earth-quakes. Rest assured, therefore, that as earth-quakes have shaken America and Europe, so will they shake Asia. Some of them will resemble the Day of Doom. So many people shall die that rivulets of blood shall flow. Even the birds and the beasts will not be immune against this death. Havoc shall sweep the surface of the earth which shall be the greatest since the birth of man. Habitations shall be demolished as if no one had ever lived in them. This will he accompanied by many other terrible calamities which the earth and the heavens will send forth, till their extraordinary nature will become evident to every reasonable man. All the literature of science and philosophy shall fail to show their like. Then mankind shall be sore distressed and wonder what is going to happen. Many shall escape and many shall perish. The days are near, in fact. I can see them close at hand, when the world shall witness a terrible sight: not only earthquakes but also many fearsome calamities shall overtake man, some from the skies and some from the earth. This will happen because mankind have stopped worshipping their true God and have become lost in the affairs of the world with all their heart and their effort and intent. If I had not come, these afflictions would perhaps have been delayed a little. But with my coming the secret purposes of an affronted God which were hidden so far, become manifest. Says God: 'We never punish unless We send a Messenger.' Those who repent shall find security and those who fear before calamity overtakes them shall be shown mercy. Do you think you will be immune from these calamities? Or can you save yourselves through artifice or design? Indeed not. That day all human schemes shall fail. Think not that earthquakes visited America and other continents but that your own country shall remain secure. Indeed, you may experience a greater hardship. O Europe, you are not safe and O Asia, you too, are not immune. And O dwellers of Islands, no false gods shall come to your rescue. I see cities fall and settlements laid waste. The One and the Only God kept silent for long. Heinous deeds were done before His eyes and He said nothing. But now He shall reveal His face in majesty and awe. Let him who has ears hear that the time is not far. I have done my best to bring all under the protection of God, but it was destined that what was written should come to pass. Truly do I say that the turn of this land, too is approaching fast. The times of Noah shall reappear before your eyes, and your own eyes will be witnesses to the calamity that overtook the cities of Lot. But God is slow in His wrath. Repent that you may be shown mercy! He who does not fear Him is dead, not alive." (Haqiqatul Wahy, pp.256-57).

When an objective student of history examines this text he will have to agree that the prophecies contained in this text has been fulfilled almost to the letter. Although the world knows earthquakes since time immemorial yet the number of destructive earthquakes that have visited this 20^th century has been of an unprecedented kind and they caused a lot of havoc. Many houses were destroyed and many people died. Now these days we have heard that quite near us in Rodrigues, tremors of minor magnitude have been registered. Similarly recently there have been earthquake in Malawi. Last year such earthquakes made at east 50,000 people homeless in Malawi. No one place is safe. When people ignore Allah’s messengers they are visited with calamities and when these calamities come they come unannounced.

In the abovementioned extract writing in 1907 Hazrat Masih Maood said that “many people will die, rivers of blood will flow.” Only the First World War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945) claimed at least 50 million victims. Never before in the world have there been wars of such ferocity and where so many people died within so short a period of time. Moreover the havoc brought about by these wars was also unprecedented. Large areas of great cities of the world were completely destroyed and had to be rebuilt. Those who lived in those periods knew poverty of a rare kind. I cannot give you all the details. But all of you should try to know the history of the 20^th Century to be able to appreciate how the words that Allah spoke to His Messiah was true.

Addressing people who lived in islands he said they also were not safe. Now there are many islands who have already been hit directly by calamities. Indonesia is made of thousand of Islands and the Tsunami that visited them in 2004 is still fresh in all our minds. Although they were most severely hit yet this calamity killed people in more than 13 countries of the Indian Ocean in all. Just imagine how terrible that calamity was. These days the experts are saying that if the level of water in the oceans rise those who would be most severely hit will be island dwellers. Just sit down and think about what might be in store for all of us. I advise you all to pray as follows:

                        O Allah Do not destroy us with Thy Anger

O Allah do not punish us with Thy Punishment

Please protect us before it happens

Let us hope that this prayer done in full sincerity might protect us at least incha Allah.

As followers of Hazrat Masih Maood^as we should be really glad when we see that the words of Allah spoken to him have been fulfilled. When we see that many of the words of warning of Allah have been fulfilled we can legitimately expect that His Words of good tidings also will be fulfilled. One of these words of glad tidings was that whenever there is any need Allah will send some people from Himself to preserve the teachings of the Holy Quran. Speaking about the ways of Divine guidance he says:

“There are three ways of Divine guidance; or, in other words, there are three means and methods. First, a lost one may find guidance through the Book of God. Secondly, if he does not arrive at full understanding, through the Divine Book, the light of rational evidence may point out the way to him. Thirdly, if rational evidence should also fail to satisfy him, heavenly signs may help him to tranquility of faith. These are the three   means that constitute Allah's eternal way for the satisfaction of His creatures.

First, the series of Books of faith that reaches the mass of people through oral communication and tradition. It is incumbent on the faithful to believe in their messages and guidance. Their most perfect and authentic source is the Holy Quran. Secondly, rational evidence, the source of which is reason and argument. Thirdly, heavenly signs whose source, next after the Prophets, is the Imam (Leader) of the age or the Reformer of the day. The original source of these is the Prophets (peace be on them). But when their miracles and signs, through the passage of time, lose their dynamic impact, having become mere stories of the past, then God, the Supreme, raises someone else following in their footsteps, so that the marvels of prophethood should not be reduced to stale and ineffective fables for succeeding genera tions and that they should also, through witnessing Divine signs, be enabled to refresh their faith” (Kitab-al-Bariyya, pp. 25-29).

This is one extract from many that shows quite clearly the belief of Hazrat Masih Maood ^as about the arrival of people from Allah to refresh people’s faith. Nowhere has he ever told us that Allah will remain aloof and let a system known as “khilafat” help people to refresh their faith. That is why I have been saying and continue to say that Jamaat Ahmadiyya these days is deviating from the real teachings. Who can know better than Allah that they have deviated? No one. When Allah sees this deviation He activates His System to correct it. He sends someone through revelation to show the proper way.  Were He to let these mistakes go on unchecked people could have told Him on the day of resurrection that they followed their leaders. But when He sends someone with a mandate from Himself He makes it clear to the people as to whom they should follow and whom they should reject. But unfortunate as the majority of Ahmadis are they follow the same misguidance of the people who preceded them. They have preferred to follow a man-made system and consider it to be divine instead of following the real pure and true teachings which are in fact divine. Allah sends them someone so that they might not fall into the trap of those who preceded them. But, so to say they tell Allah we know better than you; what we follow is true guidance. What you send us should have conformed to our desires then we would have accepted. Had you made the caliph that we have elected for ourselves as Your Guide we would surely have followed him! But you have chosen someone whom we have rejected and so we cannot follow him because he does not have our approval although he may have yours.

Our Ahmadis brothers will tell you “when have we said such words?” Of course they have not used these words. Some of their so-called knowledgeable people have said so but most of them say and believe that if their caliph were to make a declaration that Allah has made him a guide they would believe him but no one else. Unfortunately the poor Ahmadis are not aware of their own mental enslavement which makes it difficult for them to distinguish truth from falsehood. Their mind has been so enslaved that they cannot understand what is faith, what is God and even less what is khilafat. They keep rehashing what their elders told them and by so doing they have failed the test that they have been put through.  I will keep telling them about their spiritual maladies with the hope that some may start thinking “What is our situation if what Zafrullah Domun says is the truth?” I hope that there will be some whose destiny is to be rightly guided who would start to question what they have been badly taught up till now. May Allah make wisdom and open-mindedness prevail over ignorance and bigotry incha Allah. I hope that the people will heed the warnings that I have given them as a follower of Hazrat Masih and an Imam from Allah before it is too late.