Ghanian Abdullah’s dream to go to Hajj comes true . Allah calls to hajj whom he wills.

Al-Hassan Abdullah, a poor Ghanaian villager whose story went viral on Turkish social media .A turkey news channel was recording a video with their drone and eventually this drone fell in front of this old man’s house.The journalist ran to get the drone back and saw it in the old man’s hand .

He innocently asked the Turkish film crew flying a drone with a camera in his village in Ghana if they had “a bigger one of this that would take him to [Saudi Arabia]” where millions of Muslims go every year for the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage. As his story went viral on social media, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu intervened and helped arrange a hajj journey for Abdullah, who is impoverished. He arrived in Istanbul from Accra on Friday and was welcomed by a Turkish charity whose work focuses on Ghana.

Ghanian Abdullah’s dream comes true thanks to Turkey pic.twitter.com/LiQSjqWI0Z

— TRT World (@trtworld) August 18, 2017

Abdullah told Anadolu Agency (AA) he was pleased to be in Istanbul and it was God who blessed him with this favor from Turkey. “I am grateful to God and I pray to everyone who helped this dream come true. Turkish state’s assistance is valuable for me and I believe this will help improve friendship, brotherhood between Muslims,” he said.

Abdullah’s story made the headlines after a TRT World employee tweeted the image. “Then, people started to seek a way to reach out to him, from businesspeople to companies. Finally, a Turkish police officer from Turkish embassy in Ghana contacted him. He says ,he is grateful to Turkish people,”

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