Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 185
3 March 1908 185 act, the king himself had asked him three times to recant from this matter, and promised that he would be forgiven if he repented, and even greater honour and rank would be bestowed upon him than before. But he was such that he gave God precedence and cared naught for any grief that was about to befall him for the sake of God. By remaining steadfast, he left behind a most excellent and living example of his perfect conviction. He was a great scholar, an eminent learned man and a recipient of Divine revelations. It is reported that when he was about to be taken away after his arrest, he was told that he could meet and see his wife and children, but he said that there was now no need for it. This is the true essence of Bai’at , and its aim and objective. I receive letters from some people saying that someone was a mullah of a certain mosque, and because of doing your Bai’at people are displeased with him and are opposing him; in short, he was in great distress due to having done the Bai’at. And yet the fact is that very little harm can be done to anyone in this age and government of freedom and peace. At most, someone would have abused him with his tongue. What harm can such things do? But they consider it to be hardship, and complain that they have suffered this hardship on account of the Bai’at. In short, some people cannot withstand even a little oppo- sition. The fact is that they have not understood the true mean- ing of Bai’at at all. 1 1. Al- H akam, vol. 12, no. 17, p. 6, dated 6 March 1908