,so much vaunted of and praised, was kept a sealed secret and never saw the light of the day; and there are, even today, a good lot of Bahais themselves who have not seen Kitab alAqdas, the sacred scripture of their creed. The publication of this book which is said to have abolished the eternal and everlasting Law of the Holy Quran, has been interdicted by a
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i. e, If the Kitab al-Aqdas, were published, it will fall into the hands of mean, vile and low people; its publication, therefore, is not permitted.
The mealy-mouthed missionaries of the Bahai creed allure and attract the ignorant people by their sweet and soft utterances for instance, "We are out to create universal Brotherhood, based on feelings of brotherly affection and mutual good will. A person can become a member of this Beneficent Brotherhood, without, in any way, losing his religious identity." Professor Browne who instituted an intensive enquiry into this movement wrote in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1889, page 882: "That they (Bahais) adopt their con versa tion to those with whom they are speaking, there is no doubt. With a Muhammadan they will speak of the coming of the Promised Imam Mahdi.. ....... With a Christian they will speak of the expected coming of Christ and the signs thereof ...... So also in speaking with a Zoroastrian or a Sufi, they will use arguments likely to commend themselves to their interlocuter." People who
4 care not to probe into the matter, even though it carries the importance of a religious belief, fall an easy prey to the sweet, alluring speech of the Bahais, and are taken in. The doctrine of taqiyya which permits the telling of a lie in order to gain one's object, is one of the basic principles of action of the Bahai creed; and they have carried it to such an extreme that it has become almost impossible to say what is their actual belief. We read in Professor Browne's Naqtat al-QaJ, page 247, that on the night preceeding his execution, 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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