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THE FIRST CONVERTS OF THE AHMADIYYA MOVEMENT IN THE U. S. S. R. 51 coming of the Promised Messiahas. However, on this day, I deter- mined it had become necessary to tell them; otherwise, it would be a betrayal of their trust if I did not tell them now. I responded: Brother, I am the recipient of spiritual nourishment from a person who did not learn religious knowledge by going to school, nor to Iran, nor anywhere in Turkistan, nor to British countries. I then quoted from the poem the Promised Messiahas had written in Persian: که خواندم در دبستان محمد دگر استاد را نامی ندانم I know not the name of any other teacher; I have studied at the school of Muhammadsas. Abdullah Khan was a native of Kabul and was very well acquainted with Persian. Hearing this couplet of the Promised Messiahas touched him so much that he began to cry profusely and bowed his head in humility. Seeing his condition, I told him that he should stay awake that night until 1 a. m. , at which time I would have something to say to him. At that late hour, the Russian soldier outside was also asleep, and nobody knew what was happening. Abdullah Khan stayed awake until then and came to me between midnight and 1 a. m. First, we did a silent prayer together, and then I gave him the news of the coming of the Promised Messiah in the person of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, along with a brief overview of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.