Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 86
68 This episode highlighted the truth of the Promised Messiah as as broad daylight for all those who witnessed it. All praise be to Allah. This astonishing miracle impressed the non-Ahmadi friend of Oustaz Dauda Tamba a great deal. Having witnessed that miracle he declared his acceptance of Ahmadiyyat and he remains a very dedicated Ahmadi. An Old Bai’at Form In 1998, while on a tour of Kolda region of Senegal, I arrived at a village Stere Yoro. By the Grace of Allah, we have quite a big jama’at there. Mr. Demba Mballo is the imam there. He is a courageous and fearless preacher. He told me that an elderly man Ahmadou Saidy wanted to see me. Because of a tight schedule, I had little time at my disposal and suggested that I would see him on my next visit but Mr Demba Mbalo insisted that I see him that day. Anyway, we went to the village of Ahmadou Saidy ; he was about 77 years old. He was an Arabic scholar and imam of his area. We exchanged customary greetings. He was pleased to see us. We were seated in a small room. He took out some papers from his pocket. Out of these, he picked up a very old and decayed paper that had split into many pieces because of its age and showed it to me. It was a bai’at form that he had kept in his pocket for about thirty years. He told me that he had received that the year he was blessed with a son by Allah, the Almighty. I asked him how he did he get that bai’at form. He told me that one of his cousins had gone to House of Allah for Hajj that year.