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183 against shirk (associating any partner with God). You think that if you left the job of that organisation you will starve to death. Does a child get any guaranties for his feeding arrangements before its birth? We believe that Allah is the provider’. That silenced him but he did not perform bai’at. Many people of that type used to come for bai’at. Spread of Ahmadiyyat in Kolda region By the Grace of Allah, in Kolda region of Senegal there are more than forty jama’ats. In 1998 an Arabic teacher from there went to Guinea-Bissau where he got information about the jama’at. Once I was travelling from Dakar to Guinea-Bissau area. The village of ustaz Omar Saidy is situated on the road to Guinea- Bissau. Somehow he came to know about my travels and the date of my return to Dakar. Completely unknown to me, the ustaz, with many of his friends, was waiting for me at one spot. On my way back to Dakar, I stopped my car on the way for some reason. A young man came running to me and asked me if I was an Ahmadi. I answered in the affirmative. I was surprised; how did he know that I was an Ahmadi while there was no Ahmadi in hundreds of miles around that area. The young man told me that many people were waiting for me. I accompanied him in a state of uncertainty. We soon reached a house and found about twenty young men. They received me cordially. Questions and answers session followed. By the Grace of Allah, they all performed bai’at. Through these young men jama’at started spreading all around. The jama’at faced stern opposition in the area. However, the progress of the jama’at continued unabated. The jama’at is very strong and firmly established and has five mosques in the area.