least clearly and certainly recognized as part of the religion by ordinary people and the learned, most open to doubt, and most amenable to arguments they could advance, and in which they departed least from what people know through innate, scriptural, analogical, and other proofs. Such is the way of anyone who wishes to introduce something contrary to the truth held by a community: he approaches them only with what is easiest for them to accept and closest to their own views. For the devils among humans and jinn do not begin by overturning great and manifest principles, since they would be unable to do so.

It is also held by the scholars that Rāfidism originated with the heretics