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The Bab in His reply signified to him the obligation of congregational prayer. (8:2) Although the doctors of Zanjan arose with heart and soul to exhort and admonish the people they could effect nothing. Finally they were compelled to go to Tihran and made their complaint before the late king Muhammad Shah, requesting that Mulla Muhammad-'Ali might be summoned to Tihran. So the royal order went forth that he should appear. (8:3) Now when he came to Tihran they brought him before a conclave of the doctors; but, so they relate, after many controversies and disputations naught was effected with him in that assembly. The late king therefore bestowed on him a staff and fifty tumans for his expenses, and gave him permission to return.
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