Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 263
245 ‘Amir Lives on Petrol and his car goes on Prayers’ Dr Saeed Ahmad Khan was a very devoted and faithful member of UK jama’at. He came to the Gambia twice with his wife. He was a skin specialist. During these trips he organised medical camps in big centres of jama’at and, by the Grace of Allah, served the people abundantly. His wife also fully supported him in this good deed. May Allah reward them! Once he brought many motorbikes as a gift to the Gambia jama’at which were given to the muallims. He had great zeal for preaching. He tried his best to deliver the message of truth to all and sundry. By the Grace of Allah his efforts bore fruit and several bai’ats took place through him. In 1998 he came to the Gambia for the first time. The Ameer had gone to Pakistan on and I was serving as his deputy. Those days I had an old car that malfunctioned most often. Firstly it was old. Secondly its steering had been changed from left to right because the Japanese mission had sent us left hand drive cars by mistake while in the Gambia and Senegal it was right hand drive. Moreover, as it was driven on the untarred and wretched roads of the Gambia and Senegal it had developed many faults. I planned to take Doctor Sahib and his wife to several jama’ats. Dr Ansari’s father-in-law, Mr Chughtai Sahib was also in the Gambia those days. When Dr Ansari and Chughtai Sahib heard about the plan, they also decided to join us. We planned to ferry across to Bara first. We reached the ferry