Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 7
7 this melodious call with our own ears, the angels marvel at the solicitude our dearly loved Prophet sa had for the welfare of humanity and how he chose to cultivate the idea of human equality among them. I regaled them with many examples of compassionate behaviour, sympathy, love and affection. I reminded them of the conduct of the Ahmadiyya community during the course of our fifty-year activity in Africa. This is a fact, I told them, that Christianity made its debut in their lands a few hundred years before with the message of love and was loud in its protestation. But the banners bearing the message of love were fixed on the cannons that the armies of different European powers were equipped with, and the barrels of those guns showered shells and not flowers. That message of love did not cut any ice; it could not, for a better and more captivating message had been communicated to the world through the Holy Prophet Muham- mad sa. 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