ould 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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"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 founder." We are here reminded of St. Paul of the early Christian Church who employed, Bahailike, similar tactics to fleece people into the fold of Christianity. In his Epistle, to the Galatians (New Testament), chapter 9, verse 20, Paul wrote. "And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law." It is now abundantly clear that the Bahais conceaJ their faith on principle, in order to be able to draw wool over the eyes of the people. Their preposterous claim, on the one side, that Bahaullah's law has abrogated the law of Islam, and, on the other side, their mysterious concealment of that new law, leads
9 us to the inevitable conclusion that the Bahaia themselves are conscious of the worthlessness and frivolity of their absurd claim. The Bahai creed which is an off shoot of the Shia sect, is wrapped up in obscuremystery. In order to be able to make way into its interior, a knowledge about thegenessi, growth and development of this movemen t seems necessary. The Shias believein twelve Imams beginning with Ali and ending with Muhammad, son of Hasan Askari. They also believe that whereas the first eleven Imams died, the twelfth disappeared in the year 260 A. H. to reappear on this earth sometime before the Day of Judgement. Furthermore, they believe that their spiritual head is the intermediary, the Bab which means a gates through whom communication is carried on with the hidden Imam. The Bab was looked upon with extreme reverence, and his authority could not be quesbionvd. In 1260 A. H. one Mirza Ali Muhammad claimed to be the Bab. At first he and his followers adhered to the teaching and tenets or Islam; and he wrote commentaries on some chapters of the Holy Quran, and even undertook a pilgrimage to Makka. But, later on, he took a higher jump, and claimed to be the-
10 'hidden Imam himself, who was popularly called Imam Mahdi. Political predominance and world conquest being the prime purpose of this movement, 