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Regarded as one of the leading savants and prolific authors of his age, he composed numerous books and epistles in the various fields of learning that were cultivated in those times. He actively opposed both the Bab and Baha'u'llah, and used his treatises to attack the Bab and His Teachings. In the Kitab-i-Iqan, Baha'u'llah condemns the tone and content of his writings and singles out for criticism one of his works which contains negative allusions to the Bab. Shoghi Effendi describes him as "inordinately ambitious and hypocritical" and describes how he "at the special request of the Shah had in a treatise viciously attacked the new Faith and its doctrines".
(244:4)
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