The Covenant as Haifan Bahais understand it is a fabrication. Nothing Baha'u'llah wrote would imply the line of succession that Bahais accept today. Baha'u'llah simply wrote:
"O My Branches! In this Existent Being the greatest strength and the most perfect power is hidden and concealed; look towards It and gaze in the direction of Its union and not at Its seeming differences. This is the Testament of God that the Branches, Twigs, and Relations must each and every one look to the Greatest Branch. Reflect upon that which is revealed in My Book, the Aqdas: "When the Ocean of My Presence hath disappeared and the Book of Origin is achieved to the end, turn your faces towards Him whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Pre-Existent Root." The aim of this blessed verse hath been the Greatest Branch. We have likewise elucidated the Command as a favor from before Us; and I am the Generous, the All-Giving!Verily, God hath ordained the station of the Greater Branch after the station of the former. Verily, He is the Ordainer, the Wise. We have surely chosen the Greater after the Greatest as a Command from the All-Knowing, the Omniscient!"
-Baha'u'llah, Kitab i Ahd, translated by Horace Holley
If this excerpt from Baha'u'llah's Book of my Covenant were to be followed then the line of succession would be Baha'u'llah->Abdul Baha->Mirza Muhammad Ali and people who follow this succession would be Covenant Keepers.
Do you think that if this line of succession makes sense to someone, this makes him a wicked soul who suffer from a "spiritual disease"? This is what Haifan Bahais believe. They can't justify their position with logic or scripture, so they resort to scare tactics and attacks that appeal to emotion rather than logic.
I have read Mirza Muhammad Ali's side of the story. He was not a bad person. His life's mission was to promote the idea that Baha'u'llah's successors were not partners of Baha'u'llah. Indeed Baha'u'llah says:
"He Who is the Dawning-place of God’s Cause hath no partner in the Most Great Infallibility."
-Baha'u'llah, Kitab i Aqdas, paragraph 47
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