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182 parties would present their arguments and the judge would give his verdict. A butcher would attend the court daily after finishing his job, listen to the proceedings carefully and make his own judgement in his mind. One day one of his friends asked him that being an illiterate person how could he make his decision? The man replied that it was easy. “If the neck veins of the person get swollen while speaking, I know, he is telling lies. ” It seems that the villager while listening to our debate decided in favour of Ahmadiyyat on similar lines! Ustaz Ahmadou Bigge Sow wants to become an Ahmadi but … In Ndofan there was an Arabic teacher by the name of Ahmadou Bigge Sow. One of his maternal uncles Alnabbi Jallow was an Ahmadi. I had several discussions with the ustaz but he did not accept Ahmadiyyat. Once he sent a message through an Ahmadi friend that he wanted to see me. Once I happened to be on a tour of his area. I went to his house accompanied by a friend and in my car I brought him out of the town and asked him about the purpose of this meeting. He said, ‘I swear by God and declare that Ahmadiyya jama’at is true, therefore I want to become an Ahmadi but I have a condition. You know that I am working under a well-known international Muslim Organisation. As soon as they know that I have joined Ahmadiyya, they will dismiss me from the job. And you know very well that I have no source of income other than teaching. Therefore you should employ me as a muallim’. After hearing all that I replied, ‘I think that you cannot become an Ahmadi because bai’at should be without any pre-conditions. Ahmadiyya jama’at is engaged in a Jihad