Some Hidden Pearls — Page 110
he had actually fallen vanquished at his feet. . Munshi Zafar Ahmad has also related that the effect of the speech made by the Promised Messiah on that occasion, on. Dr. Sadiq Ali, also, was so deep that the very same day, in private, he proferred his wish before the Promised Messiah that he desired to take Bai'at and join the fold of the Ahmadiyya Movement. But thinking that he was saying so probably under some temporary state of the mind Hazrat. Ahmad did not permit him to do so; he advised, instead, that Dr. Sadiq Ali should make a more careful and thorough study before taking Bai'at. It is to be noted that the Promised Messiah in some cases used to give such advice when it appeared to him that the request for Bai'at was the outcome of some passing mental or spiritual stress; and the reason why he did so was that people who accept Bai'at under circumstances of this kind, in some cases find themselves later in serious difficulty, when they come under pressure from various hostile quarters, succumbing 110 -