and Christians, as well as those belonging to no religious community, they organized their doctrine and strategy into seven degrees, calling the last al-Balāgh al-Akbar and al-Nāmūs al-A‘zam. Among the instructions they gave their missionaries was:

“When you approach the Muslims, do not approach those who say, ‘The Book and the Sunnah,’ for they will prove difficult for you and will not respond to you. Rather, approach them through Shiism: profess allegiance to the family of Muhammad, venerate them, champion their cause, and show hostility toward those who wronged them. Recount as much as you can of the wrongs done to them by the earlier generations, for this will cause a great many people to respond to you. In this way you will ultimately be able to undermine their religion.”

Then he described the degrees of his call, one degree