Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 91
73 Introduction of Ahmadiyyat in Kousanar Area While I was stationed at Farafenni in the Gambia, from there we conducted the preaching campaign in Senegal. It was apparently impossible to make contacts in Senegal from there. However, as Allah had promised that, ‘I shall cause thy message to reach the corners of the earth’, He Himself provides the means for propagation of truth imperceptibly. Once, Sunday market was being held in Farafenni, close to the Ahmadiyya Clinic on the outskirts of the town. I went to the market along with a muallim. On the way, I saluted one of my acquaintances. He was accompanied by a guest, who asked him about me. He was told that I was Ahmadiyya Ustaz. The guest expressed his desire to see me. Both of them came to my house, straightaway. Some muallims from Senegal were also staying with me at that time. They were able to meet them as well. Soon it was dinner time. In keeping with the Senegalese tradition, we all ate out of one plate. He was greatly impressed by that and remarked that he had never seen their own religious leaders eating together with others. They stayed with us till Asr prayers and we talked about jama’at. They prayed with us and, by the Grace of Allah, he performed bai’at. His name was Bamboo Jobe, thus, Allah the Almighty, planted Ahmadiyyat abo ut six hundred miles from Farafenni, where it would have been impossible for me to go under normal circumstances. His house became a jama’at centre in that area. Later I sent muallim Sali Jobe to that area; he stayed in his house for a long time. Consequently, Ahmadiyyat was planted in many places in that area.