Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 27
27 anyway. We have been foretold in a revelation of the Promised Messiah as that fire will blaze for us. 'Do not scare us with the threats of fire. Fire is our slave; even a slave of our slaves. ' It carries two prophe- cies, first that fire will be set ablaze for you to burn you to ashes; second that the fire shall not burn you to cinders, on the contrary, it will be a source of benefit to you and will be of service to you. When the first part of this prophecy is fulfilled, i. e. when the fire is set ablaze, we are not scared. In fact, we rejoice in that Allah, the Supreme, has made true His promise in the first part, and that He, the Almighty, the All-Powerful, shall also make good the other part of this revelation. Fire shall thus not reduce us to ashes. It will in fact serve us. I call upon you to pray to Allah, the Excellent. I continuously pray that this fire of opposition instead of burning us, may end up in preparing garlands of triumph in celebration of our victory, and may this be the blaze of jubilation and may it shower on us petals of flowers and not flames of fire. When we came to Sierra Leone we had a new courage, for, Allah, the Magnificent, had granted us leave to invest more and had