The Báb is alleged to have replied that He had learned to conjugate Arabic words in His childhood, but had forgotten the rules. This is supposed to have been the answer of a Person who had revealed the _Qayyúmu'l-Asmá'_, the _Commentary on the Súrih of Kaw[_th_]ar_, the _Commentary on the Súrih of V'al-`Aṣr_--all in Arabic. When the Báb stated clearly: 'I am that person for whose appearance ye have waited a thousand years,' Nizámu'l-`Ulamá retorted: 'That is to say you are the Mahdí, the Lord of Religion?' 'Yes,' answered the Báb. 'The same in person, or generically?' 'In person.' 'What is your name, and what are the names of your father and mother? Where is your birthplace? And how old are you?' 'My name is `Alí Muḥammad,' answered the Báb. 'My mother was named Khadíja and my father Mírzá Riẓá the cloth-seller; my birth-place is Shíráz; and of my life, behold, thirty-five years have elapsed.'[DR] [Footnote DR: Critics such as Mírzá Káẓim Big (Kazem-Beg) have observed that giving the age of the Báb as thirty-five indicates that the whole account is spurious. Furthermore, it was not the mother of the Báb who was named [_Kh_]adíjih, but His wife.] 'The name of the Lord of Religion is Muḥammad; his father was named Ḥasan and his mother Narjis; his birthplace was Surra-man-Ra'a; and his age is more than a thousand years. There is the most complete variance. And besides I did not send you.' 'Do you claim to be God?' asked the Báb. 'Such an Imám is worthy of such a God,' replied Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá. 'I can in one day write two thousand verses. Who else can do this?' 'When I resided at the Supreme Shrines I had a secretary who used to write two thousand verses a day. Eventually he became blind. You must certainly give up this occupation, or else you too will go blind.'[6] Even from these few quotations the absurdity of the trial may be seen. The authors of _Nási[_kh_]u't-Tavárí[_kh_]_, the Supplement to _Rawḍatu'ṣ-Ṣafá and Qiṣaṣu'l-`Ulamá_ took their material from a tract written by the same Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá who presided over the tribunal in Tabríz. But [_Sh_]ay[_kh_] Muḥammad-Taqí, the son of Mullá Muḥammad-i-Mámaqání, and no less an opponent of the Faith of the Báb than his father, in a book written specifically to refute that Faith, took Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá to task for having perverted the truth. [_Sh_]ay[_kh_] Muḥammad-Taqí was himself present at the tribunal; in his book he underlined, one by one, Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá's misrepresentations. His testimony to the powers of the Báb, which he recorded despite his avowed, unrelenting antagonism, has recently been reprinted. Eventually, Niẓámu'l-`Ulamá collected as many copies as he could of his own tract and destroyed them.