ahmadiyyafactcheckblog

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Damon Stengel, in reference to the following message you posted on twitter and also linked on reddit, it is to inform that as per instructions of Respected Ameer Sahib, we are sending you the check in amount of $15,988.31 for all your donations made (Wasiyyat as well as all other heads).

“In addition, I have been a participant in the Ahmadiyya “Wasiyyat” program. With regard to this, I would like to draw your attention to the following instruction in the appendix of the Ahmadiyya booklet Al-Wasiyyat:

If a person makes a Will [i.e.., enters into the Wasiyyat program] [and] then later, due to some weakness in his/her faith, reneges on his/her Will, or abandons this Movmement, then, even though the Anjuman might have taken possession of his/her property in legal terms, it will not be justifiable for it [the Anjuman] to retain control of that property. Rather [the Anjuman] will have to return that entire property because God is not dependent on anyone’s property and in God’s view such property is odious and deserves to be rejected. (Al-Wassiyat, Appendix, instruction number 12; Ruhani Khazain, volume 20, page 325.)

Based on the above I request to please make arrangements tor reimburse me with the payments I have made to the Ahmadiyya Movement over the years in connection with the Wasiyyat program.”

As you quoted portion of Wasiyat, I am also sharing an excerpt of Hazrat Aqdas Masih Maud علیہ السلام to echo the above message, where Huzoor علیہ السلام states “This work is from God Almighty. However He puts it in my heart – whether it is correct or incorrect in the eyes of people – I do it accordingly. Thus, the one who helps me (financially) and then accuses me of extravagance, in reality attacks me. Such an attack cannot be tolerated. The reality is that I do not care for anyone. If all members of the Jama`at came together and stopped paying Chanda, or turned away from me, then the One Who has made a promise to me will create another Jama`at better than them who will possess honesty and sincerity. As Allah Almighty has addressed me saying, “Allah will help you from Himself, such people will help you whom We will have sent revelations to from the heavens.” After this, I do not consider such people whose hearts give rise to suspicions equivalent to even a dead insect. Thus, why should such people rise when I do not force such miserly people to give Chanda whose faith is still incomplete? Only such people can give me Chanda who consider me to be the Khalifatullah with pure hearts, and who believe in all of my activities whether they understand them or not, and who consider objecting to any of my work to be the cause of deterioration of faith. I am not a businessman who keeps account, nor am I the treasurer of any committee to whom I must give account. I say with a loud voice that anyone who possesses even an iota of objection against me or any of my expenses, it is forbidden for such a person to send me even a penny. I do not care for anyone. When God says to me often, everyday in fact, that He is the One Who sends whatever comes. And He never objects to any of my expenses, then who is anyone else to object? Such an objection was also made against the Holy Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم during the distribution of the spoils of war. So I say to you again to tell everyone going forward, that I swear to you by the God Who has created you, that anyone who entertains such notions should never send anything to me for this Community for as long as they live. Then see what our condition will be. After this oath, I have nothing more to write.” (Malfuzat Volume 4 page 249-250 1988 edition)

The check has been sent in certified mail today.

Signed by

Talha Chaudhry

Finance Secretary

USA Jama’at