Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page xii
xii assurance that the good work which Khalifatul Masih II, Hadrat Mirza Bashirud Din Mahmood Ahmad al-Mu s li h Ma‘ u d ra , started and continued throughout his Khilafat would continue under his Khilafat, too. Summing this up he says, 'I said to them: We have now come to you with the message of love, we have been serving you—your different countries—for the last fifty years. Each one of you, old and young, the ruler and the ruled, the official and the public know that during this fifty- year period we did not involve ourselves in your politics and had no axes to grind and did not even cast an avaricious glance in the direction of your wealth. You know well that whatever we made we ploughed back in your countries, and what you had not earned but others had earned in another country, we brought here and invested in your service. ' Allah indeed blessed his visit in more than one ways. The most gracious blessing of Allah was that He revealed to him to launch Nu s rat Jah an Scheme (otherwise called Africa Leap Forward) while he was in Gambia. The object of the scheme was and is to serve African nations by the Ahmadiyya contributions to open schools and hospitals etc. What he tried to impress on the mind of African governments and people was that