Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa

by Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad

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Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 12

12 hands lifted in supplication. He answered in the affirmative. Then I raised my hands in prayer. He joined me in his own way. A shot, I guess, had been taken at the time. May the hands that are locked come unfolded. It lies in the power of Allah, the Sublime. Mr. Gowan has a very good heart. Next he unreservedly spoke to me, a Muslim religious leader, how the foreign nations and foreign missionaries did their utmost to ruin his country and that it was the grace of God, the Supreme, that the country was saved and did not suffer the fate they had planned for it. He also paid tributes to the Ahmadiyya Community and thought it was a happy augury that all the people of his country professing different religions lived like brothers. I had the feeling that they were better off in this respect than our countries; they have realized and appreciated the truth that heart determines faith, and that the tongue can be coerced to profess anything but hearts cannot be changed; even all the hydrogen bombs stockpiled in the world cannot create a pleasant change in the hearts. It was only the flash of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa