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83 He provided us through another Abdul Shakoor! Ahmadiyya Planted in Koumbal Village In 1985, I reached Senegal as a muballigh for the first time. There were only a few Ahmadi families then. There was no mosque or mission house of the jama’at. Therefore, I rented a room in Kaolack, Senegal to start with and from there Tabligh was launched. From that beginning, today by the Grace of Allah, there are devotees of the Promised Messiah as in every nooks and corner of the whole country. One day some Ahmadi members, seated on the floor of a mud- house, were planning Tabligh in the suburbs and villages of Kaolack and thinking how they could deliver the message of truth to these people. One person suggested that the Gambia’s jalsa salana was fast approaching and each one of us should invite some sincere, noble-hearted and influential person to the jalsa; if they accepted the invitation, he was confident that the spiritual atmosphere and the speeches based on truth would deeply affect the noble and pious souls. All the friends admired his useful suggestion and promised that they would participate in this good scheme to the best of their ability, تعایل اہلل انشاء. A friend Ilo Jallow of Kouttal town said that he had a very close friend samba Jallow in a villagecalled Koumbal near Kaolack; he is my adoptive brother and has named one of his sons after me. ‘If I invite him to the Jalsa in the Gambia, he will definitely