Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 2
2 practically fashioning my conduct to the example set by the Holy Prophet sa. I demonstrated to them that there was no difference between them and us, in fact, between man and man as human beings. I caressed thousands of children, held close in embrace thousands of grown-ups and have lost count of those I shook hands with, whether there was the occasion or not, and even at the time when I felt that if I tarried longer in the sun I would be running the risk of fainting. But what I planned to tell them by word and deed, I did my best to so impart. Mission in Accra For the first time the foundation-stone of the principal mosque was to be laid in Accra (Ghana). When I laid the stone I explained this as part of Islamic teaching to an audience numbering thousands. Most of them were Ahmadis. My voice, however, reached almost every individual through radio and newspapers—the papers, the radio and television services were very co- operative.