Cherished Memories of Africa

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Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 139

121 He visited Nusrat High School, Nasir Ahmadiyya Muslim High School and Tahir Ahmadiyya High School, reviewed administrative matters and gave necessary instructions. He met some important Government Ministers, delivered Huzur’s greetings and discussed some important matters. Later, we went to Guinea-Bissau where Hamidullah Zafar was working as jama’at murabbi. Shams Sahib addressed a gathering at Farim. There was a fairly large gathering there. Shams Sahib admired Hamidullah’s work. He then went to Bissau and reviewed jama’at work there. It is Easy to Change Rooms but difficult to Change Houses There was a respectable Christian lady member of Senegalese Assembly, who had been health minister of the country. She had very close contact with the jama’at and was an Ahmadi at heart. One day she said, ‘it is easy to shift from one room to another in a house, but transferring from one house to another is fairly difficult. Therefore, it is easy for a Muslim to join Ahmadiyya but moving from Christianity to Islam demands a lot of sacrifice; you have to give up a lot for that‘. I wrote that to Hadrat Khalifatul-Masih IV rh ; Huzur was delighted, admired her sentiments of love for the jama’at and advised her to deliberate before taking any step. When Maulana Munir-ud-Shams visited the Gambia, Huzur sent special greetings to this Christian lady because of her love for Ahmadiyyat. In compliance with Huzur’s directive, on our way