Launching "Majlis Ansarullah Calling"

Dear Ansar Brothers,
As-Salamu ‘Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah

Last year, we reserved 75 hotel rooms for our National Ijtima at subsidized rates. On one end, the hotel was unhappy with us thinking we won’t be able to use all the blocked rooms. And on the other end, some Ansar brothers were unhappy with us that they never knew about these rooms in the first place. (Fact: All rooms were taken well before the Ijtima.)

We want to try our best that no one should be able to say “I didn’t know about it.” Therefore, by the grace of Allah, the Majlis is launching a robocall service titled… “Majlis Ansarullah Calling.”

This will be a pre-recorded phone call by virtue of which we will pass on critical information, directly to every member on our Tajnid, in a timely fashion. It is important to remember that this service will compliment, and not replace, any of our existing communication tool. So my dear Zu‘ama, Nazimin, and National Amilah members, you still have to maintain the same old—yet very effective—method of communication called “personal connection.”

This is how it will work. Your phone will ring, once or twice a month, during evening hours (never past 9 P.M. unless it is a true emergency), and you will hear a pre-recorded, 30-second voice message typically explaining a service and/or a program.

For example, some members still do not know that Majlis Ansarullah, USA provides a free health service for uninsured Jama‘at members, or that Ansar Tahir Scholarship can financially help you to pay for your tuition, or that we offer free books, or that Ansar are going to Mexico for Tabligh, or that you can have your living Will completed at Ijtima for free, or…you get the point.

We would prefer to use your cell phone number (if we have it in our database). Of course, if you wanted, there would be an option to opt out.

These humble efforts, these repeated reminders, are also meant as an effort on my part to fulfill the heavy burden that you have laid on me. In his Friday Sermon of December 5, 2003, Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (may Allah be his helper) narrated a Hadith where the Holy Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be on him) said that a person whom Allah has appointed guardian over a people and he does not discharge his duties fully with respect to those people, then on his death Allah will make him ineligible to enter paradise.

May Allah Almighty grant you a long, healthy, and fruitful life in the service of Islam and Ahmadiyyat, Amin.

Was-Salam,

Faheem Younus Qureshi
Serving Majlis Ansarullah, USA