Contrasted with Bahai Risala-i-Istintaqiyya رساله استنطاقیه (The Epistle of Interrogation) in which Abu-al-Fadhl and his fellow-detainees are portrayed as confirmed believers who would not flinch or wince under constraint, on the strength of a report of interrogation extracted from official records and reproduced in Awara’s Kashf-al-Hiyal and Subhi’s Payam-i-Padar, all these persons, Mirza Abu-al-Fadhl including, repudiated their faith in the course of proceedings of interrogation by Iranian authorities.

Mirza Abu-al-Fadhl stressed his strict adherence to Islam and wished the curse of god to rest upon all from the bell-wether to the Sheep of god. Both Awara and Subhi have a very poor opinion of Abu-al-Fadhl described as a Chameleon who changed his colour to suit his background. Bahais are unaware of Mirza Abu-al-Fadhl’s repudiation of his faith. Even if they were, they will put it down to public expediency, having made a virtue of necessity. But the official record of his abjuration stands. The removal of his remains from a Muslim cemetery to a sepulchre in a Bahai cemetery means nothing.

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