Truth About the Split — Page 248
248 meeting, there are now some who have joined Maulawi Muhammad Ali’s party and others who have entered my Bai‘at. But I have every hope that if asked to make a statement on solemn oath members of both parties will alike testify to the truth of the facts as I have described them. It is hardly possible for anybody to hide facts of such importance relating to a gathering of such magnitude. Before proceeding further with the narrative of these events. I wish to make a brief digression in order to present to my reader a picture of the moral condition of these men. This will enable them to judge for themselves how far Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his friends have been sincere in their dealings. When Khwaja Kamaluddin returned home from England for the first time he delivered a lecture on the subject of the dissensions. In this lecture he made a reference to this renewal of Bai‘at but gave it a most strange colouring. He represented the whole incident as though Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra convinced of the spiritual perfection of these men had asked them to enter into a special Bai‘at with him. Anyone who reads the description I have given of the incident will be in a position to understand that a person who can depict a Bai‘at , entered into under circumstances of the whole incident as a Bai‘at of fealty or a mark of