4.     Avareh’s Assessment
Kashful-Hiyal, Vol II, 3rd impression, PP. 108:
“Just as the Blessed Beauty [i.e. Baha] impersonated himself as Dervish Muhammad, so Mirza Abul Fazl held himself out as Mulla Abdullah, and as Abdul Baha Abbas represented himself as an unknown traveller. Just as Abdul Baha Abbas cited the Traveller’s Narrative, so Mirza Abul Fazl ‘invoked Sheikh Fazlulah of Iran. Just as Mr God (“Mirza Khoda, to wit, Baha] sounded the horn and pretended himself to be the guide (‘Murshid’) of Dervishes in the presence of the Ottoman authorities, so Mirza Abul Fazl carried a rosary and made a show of performing his devotions in the presence of comers, and as Abdul Baha Abbas attracted attention in Mosques performing to be a Sunni.

That this practice of deceit and hypocrisy should be interpreted as a show of power is not only ludicrous but also shameful.”


Note:
Baha went by the name of “Dervish Muhammad” during his two years stay in Suleymaniyya in the northern Iraq, Ibn-al-Baha Badiullah’s memoirs (This link is not yet available).

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