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85 mutual sincerity, fidelity, love and sympathy of the Ahmadiyya fraternity, with their own eyes. Their good nature and blessed souls recognised the truth fairly soon and both of them declared their conversion to Ahmadiyyat at the end of the jalsa. Returning to their village, they told the people that all that they had heard about jama’at from the opponents and adversaries of Ahmadiyyat was based on lies and fabrications. They described their own observation and experience and declared that by the Grace of Allah both of them had found the truth and had joined the Ahmadiyya wholeheartedly. After their disclosure, by the Grace of Allah the Almighty, many persons from the village performed bai’ats and, Alhamdolillah , a very devoted jama’at is established there; the jama’at has a mosque as well. Strangely enough the samba Jallow that our Ahmadi delegate intended to see initially and expected him to perform bai’at immediately and then help and assist the jama’at could not perform bai’at. Although he was a nice man, he remained deprived of the blessing of Ahmadiyyat. Notwithstanding, he used to preach Ahmadiyyat to non-Ahmadis a lot and many entered the fold of Ahmadiyyat because of him. The reason why he himself could not perform bai’at was that he was greatly influenced by a religious guide ( pir ) of Soken town, so much so that he had named one of his sons after that pir. The Dumb Preacher There was an Ahmadi friend in Kaolack who was dumb; he was a tailor. He started preaching his dumb friend in his specific way using the pictures of the Promised Messiah as and the khalifas,