I was one of the people, who wasn't able to go to the Jalsa Salana. The greatest incentive to go to this Jalsa, other than the religious atmosphere and the spiritual aura, is that one gets to hear Hazrat Khalifa tul Masih the fifth (aba)'s speeches in person, hear his voice, see him and the blessings that revolve around him. Khilafat is indeed one of the greatest blessings that Jama'at Ahmadiyya has received by Allah. So, this Jalsa is attended by a lot of people so that they can see and meet Huzoor (aba) in person.
Before the Jalsa started, I was excited for the Jalsa, but I didn't feel like I was missing out on it. I mean, I was watching it live, right? But as soon as the Friday Sermon started, my tears wouldn't stop, because I knew that people attending the Jalsa were indeed blessed to be where they were, and to pray behind the Khalifa of Islam. They would be eating from the langar of the Promised Messiah (as). They would be hearing live speeches and see in person, the Khalifa of Islam.
Soon after, the Jalsa proceedings started, with each session, each speech, each nazm better than the last. Each speech was ending with slogans which echoed throughout the marquee, each nazm ended in tears, each dua ended with a vow to be closer to Allah, Ahmadiyyat and the Khalifa of Islam. Advices and orders were given by Huzoor (aba) to men and women, old and young alike which everyone vowed to follow till their end. Huzoor also boosted the morale of all the Ahmadis facing persecution and constantly requested each and every Ahmadi to make dua a part of their daily lives.
Then came the time for the Aalmi Ba'ait where the old and new vow to follow the 10 commandments of Ba'ait to the best of their abilities. It is a very emotional process to do Ba'ait at the hand of the Khalifa. When it started, even though I was watching from thousands of miles apart, I could not control my tears. I was literally choking on my own tears while trying to utter them. When the part for repentance came which is "astagfirullaha rabbi min kulli zambin wa atoob o ilaeh", I was literally letting out a waterfall, seeking forgiveness from Allah and begging for His mercy.
Then Huzoor's (aba) last speech about how we are and will always be Muslims and how no one has the right to call us anything but, was such a powerful speech, I'm sure everyone present would have just awed at the marvel with which Huzoor (aba) presented his speech. Then came the dua and the nazms. Another emotional part of the Jalsa where the people from all around the world do nazm, especially the Africans who have that special tune no one can really pick, and the Arabs with their beautiful recitations of the Qaseeda.
We owe all of this to the blessings that Khilafat has bestowed on us. If it had not been for Khilafat and Allah's blessings upon it, today there would not be a channel known by the name of MTA International, nor would the message of the Promised Messiah (as) be reaching the corners of the earth. Even if I did feel like I was missing out on yet another great Jalsa Salana, MTA made it posssible for me to hear all the sessions live, and the official Jalsa Accounts on Twitter #JalsaUK and #JalsaConnect made it possible to see pictures of the marquees, the stalls, the food, the preparations, the people excited to show their msgs, the team of volunteers, the guests, and most of all, pictures of Huzoor (aba) during different times of the Jalsa.
Furthermore, as soon as I begun to feel left out, all I had to do was log into Twitter and voila! 90 of my followers were tweeting Jalsa related tweets, quoting parts of speeches or nazms that they'd heard, or commenting on the Jalsa photos they saw, or asking people, who were present at the Jalsa, about their experience. People were posting videos of Jalsa, pictures of sunset, sunrise, marquees and the food at the Jalsa. People were showing the love all around Hadeeqatul Mahdi. And that was all I needed. To know that we're all in the same boat, and that all we needed was support of each other to boost our own morales. And by the end of the Jalsa, I think all of us were tearing up. Most of it was because the Jalsa had ended but I think part of it was also because our Ahmadi Twitter family had made it through and all of us were together in this one boat named Ahmadiyyat. :)
May Allah bless Ahmadiyyat even more and may The Promised Messiah (as)'s message reach every ear in this world, and may every soul be forever bound to Allah and Ahmadiyyat - the true Islam. Thankyou Allah for blessing us with MTA without which we would still be waiting for news of the Jalsa. And regardless of the banning of all Ahmadi sites, proxies were used and some other sites were established before hand to ensure that The proceedings of Jalsa were provided to every Ahmadi Muslim throughout the world. And JazakAllah to JalsaConnect and JalsaUK for making us feel like we were not missing out on anything. I hope you will be able to do this on the next Jalsa as well. May Allah bless all your team.
I would also like to mention here that MTA did an amazing job with showing people all around the world, different religious documentaries and interviews of people who were there at the Jalsa, regardless of whether they were Ahmadi Muslims or not. It made all of us feel we were there at the Jalsa instead of sitting at home, eyes glued to our TV screens.
MTA ZINDABAD!!
To close this post, I would like to say JazakAllah to all of the people (on my Twitter) whose tweets, I loved throughout the Jalsa because of their live commentaries and prayers and updates, may God bless each and everyone of you. These include tweets in English, Urdu, German, Indonesian, Hindi, Arabic and so many more. May Allah bless all of you, and may all of your hard work pay off in converting someone to Ahmadiyyat through Twitter.
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