Our Responsibility

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• Our Responsibility Obligations as Ahmadi Women
  towards Khilafat

by LA East Lajna SouthWest Regional Ijtema2008
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• GROUP 1
• What does our Khalifaatba expect from us?
• Complete submission and obedience
• GROUP 2
• Understand and follow Nizam-e-Jamaat
• Training ourselves and our children
• GROUP 3
• Follow Nizam-e-Wasiyyat
• Financial Sacrifices
• GROUP 4
• Promoting Sisterhood
• Our role in Tabligh

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What does our Khalifaatba expect from us?

• Listen regularly to Friday Sermons
• Observing proper Purdah
• Good role models as mothers, daughters and wives
• Creating a heaven in our homes so that message of
  peace spreads in our community
• Maintaining a strong bond with Khilafat
• Be regular in prayers
• Sacrifice wealth, property, time children

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Complete Submission Obedience

• Unquestionable obedience of Khalifa in everything
  good
• To be attached to rope of God, you have to be
  obedient to the Gods appointed leader
• Hadiths on obedience

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Understand Follow Nizam-e-Jamaat

• Believer should follow instructions of God
  respect Nizam-e-Jamaat
• Hold on to Nizam-e-Jamaat during interim period
  when a Khalifa passes a new Khalifa is
  appointed
• Believer should whole-heartedly accept decisions
  of Qaza committee
• Learn to deal with problems through the
  appropriate channels
• Do not spread discord

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Tarbiyyat Training ourselves our children

• All children should do Baait of new Khalifa
• Teach children to dedicate their lives to
  Ahmadiyyat in return God blesses us
• Habit of saying daily prayers on time
  especially Fajr prayers at early age.
• Make children listen to Friday sermons regularly
• Keep children closely connected to Jamaat bring
  them to Jamaat events regularly
• Develop love of Jamaat in childrens heart thus
  love of Khilafat also
• Make an effort to do congregational prayers at
  home

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Tarbiyyat Training ourselves our children

• Inculcate habit of reading Jamaat books in
  children
• Hold family discussions at home on Quran/any
  Islamic topic make it a special day every two
  weeks
• Only under a good mother a child reach Paradise
• Teach your children that Jamaat work meetings
  should take priority over all other worldly
  affairs
• Pass the sense of financial sacrifice in your
  children

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Follow Nizam-e-Wasiyyat

• Promised Messiahas said everyone should enroll in
  this scheme at an early age
• Women should try to include their husbands and
  their children
• Wasiyyat brings us closer to Khilafat a step
  forward towards achieving Paradise
• Wasiyyat Khilafat are interdependent Wasiyyat
  is a continuous struggle Khilafat creates unity
  both lead to Jannah
• Be obedient to our Khalifaatba say Labaik to
  his call
• Do not think of yourself as unworthy!

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Financial Sacrifices

• Means of moral training. Do not lie about your
  incomes.
• Huzuratba said that in this era one type of Jihad
  is through financial sacrifice
• Have firm faith that God never wastes any good
  deed and any act done to attain His pleasure
• Our future generations will be blessed in return
  for our financial sacrifices

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Promoting Sisterhood

• Customs languages differ but all bonded as
  sisters in same religion
• Try to speak in a language we can all understand
  or translate use phrases in each others language
• Attending meetings, participating in activities
  will make you feel being part of this sisterhood
• Greet everyone warmly on meetings
• Accepting and returning sisterly social
  invitations that establish mutual respect and
  affection.
• Praying with and for your sisters that
  misunderstandings and cultural differences be
  lovingly overcome

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Our Role in Tabligh

• Observe proper Purdah.
• Give proper answers to any questions raised by
  colleagues/friends
• Handling yourself in such a manner that there is
  a clear distinction between an Ahmadi women and
  other women
• Always availing every opportunity to spread the
  knowledge about Ahmadiyyat Islam