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249 5. It seemed that he was an ardent admirer of Dr Salam. Almost all the time he continued to talk about the knowledge and services of Dr Salam such as he was a close relative of Dr Salam. He spoke from the core of his heart. He also mentioned that Dr Salam had rendered great service to the African countries and that a department of the Dakar University was benefitting from the institution in Italy established by Dr Salam. ّٰ یعطیہ من یشاء ہللا ذلک فضل Did not complete the school – took promise from Allah: Cause me to die when it is completed Once a Malaysian Ahmadi elder Nooh Handson visited the Gambia. I took him along on tour of Senegal. We booked a hotel in Dakar. TV facility was available in the room. When we switched it on we saw Mir Mahmood Sahib giving Hadith dars. It all seemed unbelievable. Anyway it made us very happy. However, we were surprised. How did that come about? After a few months the programme stopped. (This was before MTA progressed further). When I made enquiries, I found out that a Senegalese youth receives programmes from famous channels of the world and telecasts them from Senegal. I once went to see him along with my friend Muhammad Drammeh. He received us cordially. We spoke to him about MTA. He told us: ‘one day I saw a programme on MTA. I did not understand it at all but realised that it was a Muslim channel, therefore I started transmitting it. Later some mullahs told me not to transmit it. That scared me and I stopped the programme. We introduced ourselves to him and requested him to restart the programme. He said he would have no objection if we could get him a written