Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 37
37 without them'. Thus I became the 'trumpeter of His graces' in terms of the couplet of the Promised Messiah as. I have not passed a single hour of my life but it was packed with the grace of Allah, the Excellent. There isn’t a moment in a man’s life when he can be absolved of the responsibility of broadcasting the gracious- ness of God. There is such a multiplicity of graces that one can never count His blessings. Just reflect for a moment. I was 7,000 miles away from home in Africa when Africans received me with jubilation and joy. I begged forgiveness of God and prayed long for them. I fell to deep thinking and then I grasped the point. A few days after my arrival there I took my stand and addressing them I said, You look very happy. You have a right to be jubilant and therefore you should rejoice. For, it is the first occasion in the 80-year history of the Ahmadiyya Movement, and in your lives that there is in your midst, the Khalifa (Deputy) of the Mahdi as —the most favourite of the Holy Prophet sa who holds a unique position in the nation of Islam, whom the Holy Prophet sa singled out from among the vast bulk of followers of Islam who are too numerous to be counted, naming him as 'Our Own Mahdi' and made it obligatory on the Muslims to greet him with