Does the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat help its members in Africa in political and economic hardship?

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat does not interfere in the politics of any country. But it helps its members by teaching them to be honest, truthful and kind in political life as well, and in the end this serves the whole nation.

In many African countries the political and economic situation is difficult, and this also affects members of the community. As a community, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat remains non-political. It backs no party and does not interfere in the politics of any country.

This does not mean that its members must stay out of politics. As citizens of their country, they are free to take part in political life. But anyone who also belongs to a religious community follows religious rules in politics too. They do not allow themselves immoral means, lies or deceit.

A simple example makes this clear. If a politician is honest, speaks the truth and is kind to people, no one would say that someone has interfered with his politics. That is how politics ought to be. So the community can show its members the way of good politics without interfering in the politics of the country.

This is its real help. People who stay honest in hard times earn trust and help their country to recover. The verse above requires offices to be held faithfully and justly. And as the hadith shows, believers strengthen one another like the stones of a house. Whoever lives this way does not stand alone in difficult times.