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253 Nobody knows who has found favour with Generous God: You or him! Service of an Ahmadi Builder Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV (ra) directed construction of central mosque in the Gambia. Two workmen were sent under the leadership of Choudhry Abdul Aziz Dogar. One of them was Mukhtar Ahmad who did carpentry and Abdul Hamid Chhenna who was for building work. Ameer Sahib assigned the duties of repair of various institutions and construction of Baitus-Salam mosque. They did that energetically and wholeheartedly. The building of the mosque was like a hall. Once a non-Ahmadi friend visited me. I told him about our new mosque. He said, ‘the one that looks like a church’! Actually it was a big hall without minarets. The minarets could not be built because, in the Gambia, experts who could build minarets were scarce. One day, a few friends were sitting in the mosque. They said it would look like a mosque only if the minarets were built. Abdul Hamid Chhenna was sitting with us. He asked, ‘which type of minarets would you like to have, like those of Aqsa mosque or like those of Mubarak mosque in Rabwah?’ Nobody paid much attention to what he said because he was a fairly ordinary type of builder and, probably, had never been to school. Next day, Abdul Hamid Sahib turned up with draughts of various types of minarets on a paper. We were all surprised to see that because