Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 9
9 African friend that it pained me to see that they had everything but were left high and dry. Next day when I met their Head of State I told him that only a day before I had remarked to a friend that those nations left the country bankrupt and indigent after a hundred years of rule taking away with them all the wealth, and that on the contrary the Ahmadiyya community brought in its own money and started its work and whatever it made there it ploughed back in the land for the welfare of the people. This practical message of love did make its dent on hearts. Their hearts, the hearts of Ahmadis and Christians and pagans even atheists and devotees of ancient cults have been enthralled at the spectacle of Islam they saw in the shape of Ahmadiyyat. That is my personal observation. In Nigeria I came across an assembly of over fifty thousand, majority of whom were non- Muslims, break into a dance at my sight. Friends from many parts, men and women, had travelled for miles and stood packed in rows with one Ahmadi in each row and six to seven non-Muslims arranged in rows deep behind them, I could pick out non-