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The Spiritual Revolution 211 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 h al a l [permissible] and h ar a m [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 An sa rull a h , January 1984, pp. 30–31) Regularity in Prayers and Zest for Tahajjud The conditions of bai‘at include an injunction to be punctual in observing daily Prayers and offering tahajjud. The Promised Messiah as says: I am observing that my followers who have made a pledge of allegiance at my hand are rapidly enhancing their righteous- ness and their capacities to do well. After the days of Mub a - hala, our Jama'at has taken a new colour. They are in a new world. Often I find many of them crying in prostration and earnestly supplicating in all humility in the tahajjud Prayers. People with impure hearts call them disbelievers, but they are