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226 Embassy to see their ambassador. We introduced ourselves to him, told him that we belonged to the Ahmadiyya Jama’at, that our jama’at had translated the Holy Quran in many languages, more recently in French and that we had come to present that to him. And thus we presented a copy of the Holy Quran to him. He stood up and received the blessed gift very respectfully. Then he enquired about our beliefs and we gave him a brief introduction of the jama’at. He said: ‘We are receiving loads of literature against your jama’at from the government of Pakistan these days. You should also present your viewpoint to everyone. ’ Therefore, he was given further information about the jama’at. He inquired if we had any book written by the founder of Ahmadiyyat. By chance, we had Hadrat Masih Ma’ud’s Arabic writing – Al-istifta with us that was presented to him. First of all, he looked at the photograph of the Promised Messiah (as) carefully. Then he opened the book and started reading it. He was engrossed in the book so much that he became unaware of his surroundings. After quite a while, he came out of that spell and in astonishment asked: ‘In which Arabic university was the author educated?’ He was told that he did not go out of his village for learning. He would not believe that and said, ‘it is beyond the capability of a non-Arab to write that type of Arabic’. In short, he was greatly impressed and gave our delegation a lot of respect. A Childish Wish Granted Sometimes very interesting incidents take place in everyday life. I narrate one such incident here to illustrate how Allah, the Almighty grants small wishes of His humble servants.