ion, the Bab said to his friends: "My friends, when they question you tomorrow about my truth, make taqiyya (i. e. utter a lie), and deny me, and curse me, for, this is the commandment of God to you" :
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Haji Mirza Haider Ali was an ardent missionary of the Bahai faith, under instructions from Abdul Baha, the son and successor of Bahaullah, he wrote a detailed history of his own life, Bahjat al-Sadoor, A few facts which should open the eyes of Bahai dupes, are reproduced therefrom :
5 (1) Bahaullah was at Adrianople. He appointed Mirza Haider Ali as a mrssionary for Istam bol; and the first direction which Bahaullah gave him, was: (p. 88) ..:-le.J
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"Deal with the people with adroitness and skill and pose as a mere traveller in Adrianople, and always remember tha t you are to conceal your financial position, the purpose of your journey and your religious belief from the people." (2) The true disciple of Bahaullah acted upon the dictum of his preceptor with all care and caution. Once, he waited upon Shuja-udDaula, the Governor of Persia, to sound him in connection with some false reports which the opponents of Bahai movement had made to him with malicious intentions. Mirza Haider Ali, under the pretension of a random traveller related before Shuja-ud- Daula some stories about the affairs at Akka, winding up his talk with the statement (page 196)
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6 "I am not one of these people, the Bahais, I have called on you without any purpose of my own, and related to you what I saw at Akka." But Shuja-ud-Daula was a shrewd man. He saw through the game and remarked: "A man who is not a Bahai, cannot speak of them in such a strain. You are, doubtlessly, a Bahai but you are concealing it from me." Mirza Haider Ali replied:
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"If I am a Bahai, and cherish full faith in this creed, I should yield unstinted obedience to Hadzrat Bahaullah in all matters," meaning thereby that this taqiyya and telling of lie had also been taught by Bahaullah. (3) Mirza Haider Ali has recorded another incident which strips off the guise, generally worn by the Bahais, and unmasks them to full view. Writes he (p. 97) : "One evening I, accompanied by Mirza Hussain Shirazi and Darvesh Hasan went on invitation to the residence of the Ezyptian Consul. And al though I haI been adducing arguments, internal as well external, in support of the new book and the new law, and we all three believed that Islam had been abrogated
7 by the new law; yet we offered prayers at the residence of the Consul exactly in the same way as do the other Muslims. Elsewhere also we acted in the same manner.
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Excepting the funeral service, the Bahais are forbidden to offer their prayers in congregation:
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But a Bahai missionary, Mulla Ali Akbar, as stated by Mirza Haider Ali on p.50 of his book, acted as the Imam of a mosque at Shiraz and conducted the congregational prayers of the Muslims, hoodwinking them completely. And injected into them the teaching of the Bahai creed in an imperceptible and subtle way. (5) Abdul Baha sent an epistle to Sheikh Farajullah Zaki at Egypt in October 1921 which can still be read in Malcateeb, vol. iii, page 327. In it a strong stress was again laid upon the policy of double-dealing:
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"Bahaullah has strictly forbidden the propagation of Bah ai doctrine in Egypt. It is desired that our Bahai friends should keep quiet for sometime more. And if anybody should enquire about the Bahai faith, complete ignorance should be displayed before him, saying, we know not what the Bahai creed is, what it stands for, where it took its birth and who was its fou