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Shaykh Muhammad- Baqir, surnamed the "Wolf," who, in the strongly condemnatory Lawh- i- Burhan addressed to him by Baha'u'llah, had been compared to "the last trace of sunlight upon the mountain- top," witnessed the steady decline of his prestige, and died in a miserable state of acute remorse. His accomplice, Mir Muhammad- Husayn, surnamed the "She- Serpent," whom Baha'u'llah described as one "infinitely more wicked than the oppressor of Karbila," was, about that same time, expelled from Isfahan, wandered from village to village, contracted a disease that engendered so foul an odor that even his wife and daughter could not bear to approach him, and died in such ill- favor with the local authorities that no one dared to attend his funeral, his corpse being ignominiously interred by a few porters.
(232:2)
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