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212 Glad Tidings in Advance Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IV (ra) arrived for a tour of the Gambia in early 1988. Mansa Konko is a regional headquarter in the Gambia. It has a state rest house where Huzur was to stay for some rest on his way back from Basse. My family (my wife, my son Ataul Qadeer and my daughters Sultana and Attiya) and the wife of Daud Hanif Sahib - the former Amir of the Gambia, were already there. Huzur enquired from the wife of the Amir Sahib as to who were the girls. She told Huzur that they were daughters of Munawar Khurshid. Huzur asked, ‘has he got three daughters. ’ Amir’s wife said, ‘no Huzur, he has two’. Huzur said, ‘no, he has three’. My wife was expecting those days. A few months later Allah granted us a daughter – Tooba’. Thus Huzur’s words were fulfilled verbatim. Similarly, once I went to attend the Jalsa Salana UK with my family. We had good fortune of mulaqat with Huzur. During the mulaqat, my daughter Tooba told Huzur that she had headache. Huzur replied, ‘you want another brother. ’ Huzur repeated these words twice. Later Allah blessed us with another son. The Supreme Visiting the Lowly During his 1988 tour of the Gambia, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IV (ra) came to Farafenni. My wife and children had the good fortune of setting up the room for him. After his address at the community hall, Huzur was to set out for Salikini and later spend the night at Njawara. When Huzur’s entourage set out for Salikini after his address, as planned, it passed by my house that