Many other orthodox Sunni schools condemned him as out of the fold of Islam i.e. "kafir". Many of his own friends, like Nawab Muhsin ul Mulk, expressed their significant reservations at his religious ideas (many of which were expounded in his commentary of Qur'an). According to J.M.S. Baljon his ideas created "a real hurricane of protests and outbursts of wrath" among the local clerics "in every town and village" in Muslim India, who issued fatawa "declaring him to be a "kafir"" (unbeliever). He was also accused of having converted to Christianity.