This "Bab" used to say that a spark of God had descended upon prophets like Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, and that it had also descended upon him. He would confront the jurists of Persia – each jurist among them being an independent scholar called a Mulla – and accuse them of hypocrisy, flattery, greed, love of this world, and distance from the hereafter. He interpreted the Quran with an esoteric, symbolic interpretation and allegorized its texts. He did not believe in all the rituals of Islam and their details, considering them burdensome and beyond human capacity at the present time. He believed that the resurrection was not life after death, but rather that resurrection occurred repeatedly through cyclical renewal, which is what the Quran refers to as the "other life." He did not limit himself to this religious aspect but also called for ethics based on reason and taste. For example, he advocated for brotherhood not only between Muslims but for all humans, regardless of wealth or poverty, and without distinction between Muslim, Christian, Jew, or pagan. He called for equality between men and women, as women are partners in humanity. While it is true that men, due to their physical makeup, have functions they can perform that women cannot, and vice versa, in all other respects, all are equal in inheritance and in the lifting of the veil. He rejected the prevailing method of marriage.