Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 55
55 this respect. But I am involved in one venture about Spain which, it seems to me, is not proper to disclose at the moment. Prayers in this connection must however start right now. Pray hard then that the object of my visit to Spain may be achieved—there are already some signs of it. Allah, the Sublime, may be pleased to further our cause by His mercy and grace, for, we are weak and humble creatures. That day then will be a day of great rejoicing for the entire nation of Islam. Some will not help and unfortunately they will not be pleased. But that truly will be a day of a great rejoicing for the Muslim world. I had told some of the ambassadors of the majority Muslim countries of West Africa that I was going to Spain with a mission and wanted them to pray for its success. My idea was that such a request would spark them with appreciation of and interest in the activities of the Movement. They reacted with so much delight that you can have no idea of it. And they did pray hard. In fact one of them asked me to give his message to General Franco that his uncle had helped Spain when it needed help and that he would be immensely pleased if the General