Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 137
119 relatives instead which was approved. That is how the Ahmadi friend got appointed in Senegal. Consequently, he was rather subdued, thinking that his right had been usurped because some countries have more facilities and are financially more rewarding than others. He wrote all that to Huzur for prayers. Huzur advised him to proceed forthwith because that was in fulfilment of his dream. A great revolution has taken place after Huzur’s dream; the following incidents are just the beginning. A Wonderful Dream – Grand Fulfilment : Senegal had been very unproductive for a long period in that many Tabligh efforts there were unsuccessful bearing occasional fruit here and there. Kaba Jallow - village chief of Sare Mare in Nioro area of Senegal once performed bai’at. That gave me a lot of pleasure and I took pride in telling many people that a village chief in Senegal had become Ahmadi. That clearly depicts the situation regarding Tabligh and its meagre results in those days. One day, a Senegalese muallim came to my house in Farafenni, the Gambia and among other things, he narrated one of his dreams, which was as follows: ‘A meeting is taking place in the National Assembly of Senegal in its capital Dakar. The hall is full of dignitaries. The meeting is presided over by an Ahmadi youth named Abdullah from Kaolack’. I heard his dream and jokingly said, ‘Ahmad Ly what are you talking about? You are dreaming big; the ground reality is that even an ordinary person is not prepared to listen to our preaching and you are talking about members of parliament’!