Truth About the Split — Page 249
249 favour, and thus tries to throw dust into the eyes of others can ill deserve our esteem. The actual words used by Khwaja Sahib were "He (Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra ) required from me a second Bai‘at. This is quite true. But what kind of Bai‘at was it? Bai‘at-e- Irshad. Can you say honestly that he got me to renew my Bai‘at '? It was indeed Bai‘at-e-Irshad and not a renewal of Bai‘at or Bai‘at-e-Taubah. After this there is yet another kind of Bai‘at and that, is Bai‘at-e- Dam. Now go and look up the books of Sufis to find out from what class of disciples they received Bai‘at- e-Irshad. They receive Bai‘at-e-Taubah when they accept a disciple into their following, and when they observe in him the capacity for strict obedience, they receive from him the Bai‘at-e-Irshad , and when they come to possess full confidence in him, they receive from him the Bai‘at-e-Dam , (Vide Andruni Ikhtilafat- e-Silsilah Ahmadiyya kei Asbab , p. 58). But to resume, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra was annoyed at the action of these men and most seriously so. He made them renew their Bai‘at. But while other people had their hearts chastened by the experience, the incident served merely to fan the flames of hatred in the hearts of these men. The only difference the incident made in their conduct was that whereas formerly they sometimes exhibited their feeling in