Nasir al-Din Shah in his visit to Meshed in 1274/1857-58...

Nasir al-Din Shah in his visit to Meshed in 1274/1857-58 came especially to the city of Haji in order to meet him in person. In Sabziwar, away from the turmoil of the capital, Haji spent forty years in teaching, writing, and training disciples, of whom over a thousand completed the course on Hikmat under his direction. Haji’s life was extremely simple and his spirituality resembled more that of a Sufi master than just of a learned Hakim.

It is said that along with regular students whom he instructed in the madrasah he had also special disciples whom he taught the mysteries of Sufism and initiated into the Path.[^3] He was not only called the “Plato of his time” and the “seal of the Hukama”' ( khatam al-Hukama ), but was also considered by his contemporaries to possess the power of performing miracles of which many have been attributed to him in the various traditional sources.

By the time lie passed away in 1289/1878, Haji had become the most famous and exalted spiritual and intellectual figure in Persia and has ever since been considered one of the dominant figures in the intellectual life of the Shiah world. Unlike Mulla Sadra all of whose writings with one exception were in Arabic, Haji wrote in Persian as well as in Arabic.

Moreover, he composed a great deal of poetry collected in his Diwan , which consists of poems in Persian of gnostic inspiration and poems in Arabic on Hikmat and logic.