The Legacy of Promised Messiah (as) – More on ‘The Will’ / ‘Wasiyyat’ here
Aims and Objectives
Eligibility and Qualifications for Wasiyyat
Wasiyyat Forms and Documents
· Encourage regularly updated quarterly report forms to be handed in for submission of report to Head Quarters.
· Follow up Majalis who do not provide reports.
· Maintain accurate data regarding those Lajna who are Moosia, those whose application is in process and compare this with the previous year
· Share articles/videos to all Majalis regarding Wasiyyat to increase knowledge.
· Attend meetings to explain the Wasiyyat system and encourage members to join blessed Scheme.
· Identify members who are not part of this scheme in every Majlis.
· Contact individuals and try to encourage as many members as possible to join Wasiyyat.
· Arrange wassiyat information stalls at ijtemat and jalsa salana.
· Encourage majalis to arrange seminars quarterly
Before committing the Wasiyyat (Will) to writing please read or have read out to you, more than once, the Promised Messiah’s booklet Al-Wasiyyat and the Appendix thereto and other rules (Viz. Minutes of the First Meeting of Board of Directors of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Qadian held on January 29, 1906 duly verified by the Promised Messiah). It is important to bear in mind that the first and foremost condition for an aspirant Musi is that he should be pious, should follow the biddings of the Shari’ah, should give preference to his faith over every worldly consideration, and should be a true, sincere and devoted Ahmadi.
Rule 19. The prospective Musi must be a believer in the Promised Messiah in all his claims and must be a Mubai‘Ahmadi.
Rule 20. An Ahmadi who has attained the age of majority (which is generally 15 years) shall be competent to make Wasiyyat. However when the legal age of majority differs from the age of majority prescribed by Shari’ah the Wasiyyat shall be renewed after the attainment of majority according to law of the land.
Rule 21. Every prospective Musi must be ‘a God-fearing person must abstain from the prohibitions and must not indulge in any act that savours of Shirk or harmful innovation and should be simple and straight Muslim’ and, ‘to the best of his ability, should live in accordance with the Islamic Teachings and should strive in the ways of righteousness and purity a Muslim with Faith in Unity of Allah and true belief in His Messenger —and should not transgress where the rights of others are concerned.’ (Al-Wasiyyat Condition 3 & Appendix to Al-Wasiyyat Clause 7)
Rule 22. A prospective Musi shall be required to bequeath through Wasiyyat a minimum of 1/10th of all his Jai’dad for the objects of the Jama‘at. (Al-Wasiyyat Condition 2, Appendix Clause 2)
Rule 23. If a prospective Musi has no property of his own but has some source of income he shall bind himself to pay at least 1/10 of his monthly income to Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistan. Provided that when the income is derived quarterly, six-monthly or annually, he shall bind himself to pay at least 1/10 of his such income quarterly, six-monthly or annually respectively. (Resolution of the ‘First Meeting’ of Board of Directors of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Qadian held on January 29, 1906, Clause 6)
Rule 24. Wasiyyat may be made of a minimum of 1/10th and a maximum up to 1/3rd portion.
Rule 25. If a prospective Musi has both property as well as income the Wasiyyat shall apply to both property and income.
Rule 26. A prospective Musi, at the time of Wasiyyat, must not be in arrears of Chanda ‘Am, nor must the arrears of any buried Musi be outstanding against him.
Rule 27. A prospective Musi must make his Wasiyyat while being sane, in good health and possessed of his senses. ‘Deathbed’ Wasiyyat shall not be permissible. (Al-Wasiyyat Instruction No.1; Appendix Clause 2)
Note: Death bed ailment shall mean such serious illness in which there is a strong apprehension of death and during which ailment death does in fact occur. (Resolution No. 5 Extraordinary of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistan, dated 7 October 1984, Para No. 2) Rule 28. It shall be obligatory for a prospective Musi to pay, in addition to the Wasiyyat amount, a contribution according to his financial status, for the maintenance of Bahishti Maqbarah, its garden, upkeep of the path and other incidental expenses. This contribution is known as Chanda Shart Awwal (contribution towards the First Condition). (Al-Wasiyyat Condition 1)
Rule 29. In addition to paying Chanda Shart Awwal (Rule 28), a prospective Musi shall at the time of making his Wasiyyat, pay the expenses relating to the publication of notice of his Wasiyyat. (Al-Wasiyyat Instruction 1, Appendix to Al-Wasiyyat Clause 2)
(Taken from Wassiyat rules, Publised by Nazara t Na shr o Isha a’at Qadian)