Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 237
219 every two years. Traders from all over the world erect their stalls there. This humble one had the good fortune of organising a jama’at Tabligh stall several times. Customarily we exhibited various jama’at publications in French and English. Visitors who visited our stall would look at some of the books; some would buy while others just moved on. Some visitors would enquire about certain books and if we did not stock them we tendered our apology. One day a Senegalese friend came to the stall and enquired about the booklet ‘The truth about khatme nabuwwat’. I told him that I did not have it. Several other visitors also enquired about the same booklet. I was much surprised as non-Ahmadis do not usually buy a book like that, rather we present it to others for Tabligh purpose. I enquired one such person as to what interest did he have in that book. I avoided answering that but another person told me that the entire booklet had been published in the daily ‘Le Soleil’. I was greatly surprised. The newspaper had their own stall in the trade fair. I approached them and enquired about the issue containing the specific article. As I did not know the date precisely they could not help me and I came back. At the end of the fair we passed through Kaolack on our way back to the Gambia. I thought of greeting our Ahmadi friend Muhammad Jobe who was a shopkeeper there. When I met him, among other things he told me about the publication of our booklet in Le Soleil. He took out that paper from his cupboard and handed it to me. I was overjoyed to get that paper out of the blue.