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187 and paid chandas regularly according to prescribed rates. Allah blessed him with the opportunity to perform Hajj. Sadly he fell ill while still young and the illness became severe. He was transferred to Dakar, where I had the opportunity to serve him, as I was in Senegal those days. However, he did not survive and died in Dakar. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon. Ustaz returns from Saudi Arabia after specialising in ‘Qadianiyyat’ Once a tarbiyyat class was arranged in Dakar and was attended by new converts from all over the country. Among them was a young Arabic ustaz who had come for the first time. Ustaz Ahmad Gaye told me that he had returned recently after his studies in Saudi Arabia; he studied ‘Qadianiyyat’ as his speciality subject there. He was greatly displeased to learn that some of his friends in the area had converted to Ahmadiyyat. He was greatly displease with them. They told him that they were going to a tarbiyyat class in Dakar and suggested that he joined them to get the answers to his questions there and satisfy himself. That is how he ended up in that class. I realised that his heart was brimming with prejudice. Whenever questions and answers session started he would ask many questions acting as the leader of the classmates. We would answer according to our ability. Several days passed by but his intensity did not abate. His objections were becoming sharper day by day because he did not try to understand, rather he raised objections for objection’s sake. Whereas my previous experience about non-Ahmadis attending the class showed they were inclined to right path after a few days but this ustaz was increasing in malice and enmity. One day when I started the questions and answers session, I said