The arrival of the fourteen boys from Persia in July brought in its wake the arrival of many other Muslim boys from Bombay, including eleven-year-old Ali Akbar Shapurzaman, later nicknamed Aloba . Among the fourteen boys from Persia was one also named Ali Akbar, who had a most intense spiritual nature. During this period, this boy began expressing great love and devotion for Baba and was later nicknamed Majnun .
On 21 November, a Muslim boy about thirteen years old named Syed Ali Haji Muhammad (later nicknamed Aga Ali ) was brought to Meherabad by his father, but Baba refused to admit him. Baba did not want the boy in the school, but after the father entreated Baba to keep the boy, Baba agreed. There was a hidden reason for Baba's reluctance which was brought out later.
Later that day, B. F. Bharucha, who had heard about Meher Baba some months before, showed up in the afternoon to meet the "Great Master." The conversation opened with Bharucha asking abrupt and direct questions and receiving similar replies:
"Is there going to be a great war in the near future?"
"Yes," Baba dictated, "a war much greater than the last, with terrible bloodshed."
"Why would you allow the war to commence and go on?" Bharucha asked.
"For pleasure."
"Why should you allow such an outright massacre of mankind?"
"It is my will, wish — craze!"
"Why are you so quiet? Why not speak?"
"My choice."
Baba's curt replies upset the man and he rose to leave, disappointed in the so-called Great Master. Baba pacified him and asked if he had time to listen to what he would explain. Bharucha agreed, saying he would leave by a later train, so Baba spent almost two hours with him privately, with Raosaheb and Nusserwan Satha, and explained many things, which in the end appeased him.
The following day, 22 November, Baba's childhood friend Baily arrived from Poona with all his belongings and began staying at Meherabad, thus rejoining the mandali after quite a while.
Baba went to Kaka Shahane's for tea on Thursday, 24 November 1927, but he indicated he would stop coming on Thursdays from the following week. Baba came up the hill at 3:30 and stayed until six, playing cricket with the boys.