I give you an example of present time, not of the days past, and that too from African people of how people are being safeguarded against the sinful temptations of human passions after taking the bai‘at. Among the pagans of Africa, there are many dirty customs and habits. But as soon as they enter into the fold of Ahmadiyyat, they completely wipe clean all those customs and bring a pure change within themselves as if those habits had never existed. We receive reports that habitual drunkards immediately started hating alcohol and this left a deep impression on others too. When they talk about such changes, their religious leaders say that Ahmadiyyat has put a magic spell upon them, and that is why they have quit drinking alcohol.
I am reminded of an incident. One missionary informed me that a man in Ghana who became an Ahmadi used to have all sorts of bad habits such as drinking and adultery, etc. But then he underwent a marvellous change. As the people are poor, and there is a housing shortage, people rent rooms in larger houses. Renting a room is a common practice, and this man used to live in that kind of surroundings and had many associations with women. As soon as he became an Ahmadi, he told all of them not to come to him with evil intent. But one woman persisted in chasing him. To get rid of her he devised the method that upon seeing her coming, he would bolt the door from inside and started offering nawafil prayers or reciting the Holy Qur’an. Thus, he safeguarded himself against the temptation. Now, these are the revolutionary changes brought by Ahmadiyyat. Again, one of our missionaries Maulana Bashir Ahmad Qamar narrated the following:
After ‘Eid prayer, this humble one, along with some other members of the Ghana Jama‘ at, went to visit the Paramount Chief. He was waiting for us with other chiefs. On our entrance to his court, all the Ahmadi brothers started singing enthusiastically in front of the chiefs and their companions. One old Ahmadi man, standing right in front of the chief was waving his stick in the air and singing most passionately. Others in the audience, more than three hundred, were repeating the words of the song! On my asking the interpreter, I was told that they were singing the favours of Allah the Almighty and the blessings of Islam. They were saying that prior to Ahmadiyyat they were pagans and idol worshipers. They had no knowledge of the difference between halal [permissible] and haram [forbidden], virtue and evil. They were living entirely like animals; they were thoroughly wild. They used to drink alcohol like water. Ahmadiyyat showed them the straight path, and they got rid of their evils, and turned into humans. These people were narrating all this as the truth of Ahmadiyyat with full confidence in front of their own Paramount Chief who knew their previous habits very well. (From Monthly Ansarullah, January 1984, pp. 30–31)