Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 112
94 own mosque and a mission house wherein a muallim is busy serving the faith day and night. Deliverance of Muhammad Kumba Bah from his Ancestral Pir (spiritual guide) As mentioned above, the village chief of Douta Boulo is Muhammad Kumba Bah, who is, by the Grace of Allah, a very devout Ahmadi. He once told me that his family was associated with the Qadiriyya sect and their pir was a sharif from Mauritania. The pir visited his murids (followers) in the Gambia and Senegal; he would pray for them, receive gifts and offerings from them before going back. His father entertained the pir with extra- ordinary hospitality. Goats and sheep were slaughtered for the pir and a cow for his murids and visitors. This tradition had been established in the family since long. Muhammad Kumbah Bah added, ‘Then, by the Grace of Allah, I accepted Ahmadiyyat. After that my father passed away. Later the pir came to my house; I welcomed him and served him with the food that we routinely take at home. I also told him that, by the Grace of Allah, we have become Ahmadis. You are our guest and respecting the guest are binding on us; but we cannot do any more. The pir just spent the night with us and left early next morning. Several years have passed since then, the pir has not come to our place and with the blessing of Ahmadiyyat many of our cows have been spared’.