During the Baghdad period of the Bahai exiles, and emulating his predecessors-in-pretensions, Nabil set up a pretension to the office of "him whom-god-will-make-manifest" and pretended to be the Imam Husayn returned again, the king of kings of Karbala.

In footnote 5 in note W, the Traveller’s Narrative, English Translation, Vol II, Professor Browne quotes a verse from the poems “attributed to Nabil, and written apparently during the period of his claim: “I am the uplifted Tree of Life; I am the hidden and apparent Fruit; I am the king of kings of the Bayan, and by me is the Bayan exalted.”

On second thoughts, Nabil changed his mind withdrew his pretensions, attached himself to Baha before his pretensions and conducted underhand propaganda in favour of Baha, to pave the way for his pretensions at Edirne. Nabil was the author of the quatrains of the events in the life of Baha- Prof. Browne Art, xii, J.R.A.S October 1899, PP. 913-990.

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