14. Kashf-al-Ghita The Bahai Response to Nuqtatul-Kaf
It was composed, printed and published by leading Bahai missionaries at the behest of Sir Abbas Effendi, avowedly intended to denounce the Nuqta-al-Kaf, published by Prof. Browne as spurious.

The Kashf-al-Ghita was withdrawn from circulation soon after its appearance at the express order of Sir Abbas Effendi, as it boomeranged on Baha’s pretensions. In his footnotes in the Dawn-Breakers, Nabil’s Narrative, Shoghi Effendi quotes from this defunct book to rest by Sir Abbas Effendi, long before Shoghi Effendi’s induction into the office of guardianship.

The Nuqta-al-Kaf is the oldest record available of the BÁBi movement. The author knew Subh-i-Azal and Baha personally. He was martyred soon after the attempt on the then Shah’s life on August 15, 1852.

Following the precedent established by his own father Baha, Sir Abbas Effendi condemns the publication (of Nuqtatul-Kaf) as devoid of foundation, and called upon his prominent proselytiser (Muballigh) to put their head together and to compose a refutation of the publication. He also directed and instructed them to reproduce in it Sayyid Ali Muhammad 's alleged document of recantation (materials for the study of BÁBi religion by Prof. Browne, pp. 256-258) and to contrast it with Baha's epistles to the kings. In the meantime all available copies of the publication wherever they chanced to be were acquired and suppressed at Sir Abbas Effendi 's behest.

After years of laborious study a book entitled Kashf-al-Ghita-An-Hiyal-al-Ada was drafted, which was reviewed and approved by Sir Abbas Effendi. It was then printed and released for publication. The Kashf-al-Ghita no sooner came out for sale when it went for suppression and found its quietus on Sir Abbas Effendi 's own initiative. All available copies of it were withdrawn from circulation, and suppressed on the strength Sir Abbas Effendi 's SOS.

The reproduction of the alleged document of recantation in Bahai literature with the full approval of Sir Abbas Effendi avowedly intended to exalt Baha, with the epistles to the kings, at the expense of Sayyid Ali Muhammad and his successor Subh-i Azal, gave it (the BÁB's recantation) a stamp of authenticity, and boomeranged on Baha himself: If Baha's alleged forerunner Sayyid Ali Muhammad had recanted as alleged by Sir Abbas Effendi, then Baha's own position became untenable, not to speak of Sir Abbas Effendi and Shoghi Effendi.

Alien to his error of judgment which compromised Baha's standing, Sir Abbas Effendi retraced his steps and condemned Kashf-al-Ghita, which was to be a refutation of the Nuqht-al-Kaf published by Prof. Browne in the interest of science.

The strange part of it is that Shoghi Effendi resuscitated the condemned Kashf-al-Ghita, and in his footnotes in the Dawn Breaker Nabil's narrative, he involved it as the authority wherewith to embellish the tales in the Nabil's narrative.

His followers were personally interested in the condemnation of the Mirza Jani's Nuqt-al-Kaf, which did not exist save in manuscripts.

We have seen how Sir Abbas Effendi and his followers came to have a direct interest in the condemnation of Nuqt-al-Kaf published by Prof. Browne.