Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 14
14 be a big centre before but has shrunk in size now, so it is the size of Lagos—the children went around the town proclaiming 'The Mahdi as you were waiting for has come, his Deputy who is his third Khal i fa is in your midst now—go and receive blessings from him'. These people appreciate the basic truth that religion is a matter of heart and a change in the heart cannot be forced. We have therefore great hope, for, we have the message of love, of brotherhood, of sympathy, of compassion and human equality. Every Christian I happened to address affirmed my viewpoint. In Liberia I asked a teenager his name. He said it was Johnson. I told him that it was not and that henceforth he shall be called Jamil Nasir and shall be a Muslim. He answered back 'Yes, sir'. The child is in the employ of our Am i n Ullah Khan S a lik. He told me that the boy told his family members that he was no longer Johnson and was a Muslim. In short, we won their hearts. Now we have to propel their mouths to articulation. In fact, we have not yet reached many people. At an airport we realised through contact with a