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106 in November, 1965. I had some engagements in the United States in October and travelled from San Francisco to Auckland in early November, breaking journey for a week in the Fiji Islands, where there is an active, well-organised, and go-ahead Ahmadiyyah Com munity. These islands are one of the veritable ends of the earth. The International Date Line runs through them. One of the early revelations vouchsafed to the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Movement was: ‘I shall carry thy message to the ends of the earth. ’ There is every indication that, by Allah’s grace, the Ahmadiyyah Movement is assured of a bright future in the Fiji Islands. Every moment of my stay in New Zealand proved most enjoy- able and full of delight. From New Zealand I flew to Sydney and spent three very interesting days in Canberra. Meeting with King Faisal ibn Abdul-Aziz (1906 to 1975) of Saudi Arabia—in appreciation of his outstanding services to the Muslim Ummah, the government of Saudi Arabia granted Muhammad Zafrulla Khan the privilege to pray inside the holy structure of the Ka‘bah itself.