Life of Ahmad — Page 183
183 CHAPTER 17 COMMANDED TO TAKE BAI‘AT Ahmad as issued a momentous tract on December 1st, 1888, which was printed at the Riy ad -e-Hind Press, Amritsar. It is known as. In this tract, having dealt with the passing phases of the agitation, Ahmad as struck a deeper note. He was not concerned, he said, whether people agreed with him or not. He did not care whether people accepted his claim or rejected it. It did not matter if they praised him or condemned him. He was too preoccupied for these things. He had turned away from everybody in order to concentrate his attention upon the Living God. He would carry on His work though he knew that some even of his co-religionists treated his way of doing it with contempt. He excused all such people because, he said, they had not his knowledge of God. Let them go their own way, while he went his. It was really a parting of the ways. He had reached a point where he vividly realised that he was not only required to cope with foreign invasion, but also to deal with rebels and revolutionaries within