
Huzoor recited the following verse at the start of his Friday sermon: ‘Verily, he alone is worthy of maintaining the Mosques of Allah who believes in Allah, and the Last Day, and observes Prayer, and pays the Zakat, and fears none but Allah; so these it is who are far more likely to counted among the guided.’ (9:18) The sermon was delivered from Maryam Mosque, Galway, Ireland on the occasion of its inauguration. With the grace of God Muslim Jama’at Ahmadiyyat was enabled to inaugurate its first mosque in Ireland today. May God bless the building and establishment of this mosque in every way! Although the mosque is small in size, yet it announces that here followers of the Muhammadan Messiah will worship five times a day. This mosque will announce that a mosque is a place where dues of God and mankind are fulfilled and it is not a place for evil and disorder and it is built to worship Lord of all the worlds. The Lord who bestowed His Rububiyyat (Divine quality of sustaining and nurturing) on all the people of earlier times, Who bestows is today and shall continue to bestow it in future for always and ever. His Rububiyyat is not specific to any one body of people rather it is for all the worlds and the cosmos. From this perspective, the mosques of the Muhammadan Messiah announce that if spiritual insight of Rububiyyat is to be obtained, it can only be done by joining the Jama’at of the Muhammadan Messiah. They build mosques to remove evil and disorder of the world and to promote reflection on the beautiful teaching of Islam which is based on love, conciliation and peace. This is the teaching that the world today is in great need of. Indeed the world is not in need of war and armaments! Our mosques announce that the hearts of those who come here are free from any thoughts of usurping rights of others. Our mosques are a sign and a focal point of the fact that those who come to these mosques give every kind of sacrifice for the rights of others. And in this regard while they have compassion for their own, even the enmity of the enemy does not stop them from being just and fair! These mosques declare that Islam is the biggest standard-bearer of religious freedom and for this purpose doors of our mosques are always open. There is no restriction on any person who worships the One God from worshiping in these mosques, whether he is Muslim or not. Every Ahmadi who comes to our mosques announces that according to the teaching of the Holy Qur’an it is the responsibility of every true Muslim to protect places of worship of all religions and this is as important for him as protection of mosques is! Our mosques also draw attention that a true believer is loyal to his country and there are countless other requisites that are put upon those who truly associate themselves to mosques so that the rights of God and mankind can be fulfilled in the real sense. All of the above has been enjoined in the Holy Qur’an and the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) repeatedly drew attention to it as indeed he fulfilled rights of God and rights of mankind and established blessed models. History bears witness that on one occasion when it was their prayer time, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) let some visiting Christians worship in his mosque. This is the real teaching of Islam which the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) taught to implement in this age and Huzoor gave a few examples of it as mentioned above. The Imam of the age instructed to spread this teaching and had expectations of us and said that wherever you will build mosques with this point of view you will open new avenues of introduction of Islam and Tabligh. He said people will be inclined to Islam and its beautiful teaching will enamour them and you will grow in numbers! And this is the objective with which we should build mosques as indeed we do. This is the teaching which is broad









