Summary

The following points below are summary from this week's Friday Sermon:

• After reciting Tashahhud, Ta`awwuz and Surah al-Fatihah, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) said that all prophets came to the world to establish the concept of the Unity of God among their people. Unfortunately however many abandoned this concept.
• His Holiness (aba) said that similarly, the Holy Prophet (sa) also brought the message of One God and to establish this among his people. The Holy Prophet’s (sa) standard in this regard in unmatched.
• His Holiness (aba) said that the teachings of Islam were impactful to others because the Holy Prophet (sa) himself was a living example of the teachings of Islam and practically showed how to implement them. He would be concerned with the fact that just as those of other religions began worshipping their prophets, he wished for that never to happen in his case.
• His Holiness (aba) said that in previous sermons, he related incidents pertaining to the Holy Prophet’s (sa) love for God and devotion to His worship.  Every single one of the incidents presented from the life of the Holy Prophet (sa) all pointed towards the Holy Prophet’s (sa) establishment of the Unity of God. The Holy Prophet (sa) had a passion and longing to establish the Unity of God.
• His Holiness (aba) said that God states in the Holy Qur’an:  ‘And We sent no Messenger before thee but We revealed to him, saying, “There is no God but I; so worship Me alone.”’ (The Holy Qur’an, 21:26)
• His Holiness (aba) said that God taught the Holy Prophet (sa) the ways of worship which the Holy Prophet (sa) employed to render justice the worshipping the One God, in a manner the like of which cannot be found in any other religion. ‘Say, “Verily I am commanded to worship Allah, being sincere to Him in religion.”’ (The Holy Qur’an, 39:12)
• His Holiness (aba) when a true Muslim sees this, they too will understand that they must strive to become sincere in worshipping God and do so by following the example established by the Holy Prophet (sa). If establish our worship whilst sincerely upholding the Unity of God, then we will become those who can be considered monotheists in the true sense and can bring about a revolutionary change. ‘And worship Allah and associate naught with Him” (The Holy Qur’an, 4:37)
• At another place in the Holy Qur’an, God says: ‘And your God is One God; there is no God but He, the Gracious, the Merciful.’ (The Holy Qur’an, 2:164)
• His Holiness (aba) said towards the end of the Holy Qur’an is an announcement regarding the Oneness of God: ‘Say, “He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Independent and Besought of all. He begets not, nor is He begotten; and there is none like unto Him’ (The Holy Qur’an 112:2-5)
• His Holiness (aba) says that here, God rejects any and all forms of associating partners with God, and He instructed the Holy Prophet (sa) to announce this to all in the world. As a result, it becomes the duty of his followers to go on announcing the same and to inform the world of the message in this chapter.
• His Holiness (aba) said that he would present examples from the life of the Holy Prophet (sa) of how he established the Oneness of God, beginning with incidents from his childhood. The Holy Prophet (sa) had such a pure nature that love for the Unity of God naturally existed within him, as did an aversion to polytheism and the association of partners with God. 
• His Holiness (aba) said that it is recorded that Buwanah was a very revered idol of the Quraish, before which the Quraish would worship and offer sacrifices. One day in the year would entirely be spent in devotion to this idol.
• His Holiness (aba) said that once, during a trip to Syria with his uncle, the young Muhammad (sa) was met by a Christian priest named Bahira. Bahira asked a question, to which the young Muhammad (sa) replied, ‘Do not speak to me about Lat or Uzza.
• His Holiness (aba) said that the Holy Prophet (sa) later went to Syria with the wealth of Hazrat Khadijah (ra) for the purposes of trade. During this time, there arose a dispute between the Holy Prophet (sa) and another man on a certain matter.
• His Holiness (aba) quoted the Promised Messiah (as) who describes the immense and revolutionary change which the Holy Prophet (sa) brought though the message of the Oneness of God. He took a society which was entirely steeped in godlessness and turned it into a society that abandoned other gods and completely turned to One God.
• The Holy Prophet (sa) was indeed given a message for the entire world. Thus, it was only right that the Holy Prophet (sa) convey this lifesaving message to them.
• The people of the Quraish were idolaters of the highest degree. The people of the Quraish were idolaters of the highest degree.
• His Holiness (aba) quoted Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra) who described the manner in which the Holy Prophet (sa) taught the idolators about the One God – in that their stone idols could do nothing for them. They could not answer their calls, could not help them when they need it, ease their pain or their trials.
• His Holiness (aba) said that one day the chieftains of Makkah approached the Holy Prophet’s (sa) uncle and implored him to urge his nephew to stop his. They said that they would be prepared to offer him whatever price he named and he would have to do nothing in return other than to stop denouncing the idols.
• His Holiness (aba) said that thus, it is our duty to spread the message of the One God and do whatever is in our power in order to do so.