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33 himself. It was at this point that Bro. ‘Abdul-Kab ī r Jam ī became my friend. I posed him some of the questions which had kept me puzzled because of the contractions I had encountered during my reading. Bro. Kab ī r gave me some literature published by the A ḥ madiyyah Movement in Isl ā m, and told me that if I was interested in the study of Isl ā m then I should take it from the real Muslims, meaning the A ḥ mad ī Muslims. I was so impressed by the literature that I requested Bro. Kab ī r to provide me with more. He did and soon I was reading the English translation of the Holy Qur’ ā n. It seemed as if reading A ḥ madiyyah literature had become an obsession with me. During this time Bro. Kab ī r had introduced me to some A ḥ mad ī brothers including Bro. ‘ Ā bid Ḥ aneef, the president of Boston A ḥ madiyyah Muslim Jam ā ‘at. I was highly impressed by each one of these brothers. Each one of them seemed to be the right kind of role model. I started to attend the A ḥ madiyyah Muslim Jam ā ‘at’s meetings and thus learned much more about Isl ā m and A ḥ madiyyat. On one day, I had just returned home from Ya ḥ y ā ‘Abdur Ra ḥ m ā n