these people with them, owing to their shared ignorance, hypocrisy, hostility to Allah and His Messenger, and opposition to Allah and His Messenger. They are among those most given to telling and believing lies. They transmit fabrications falsely attributed to the messengers and others—Allah knows their extent—and interpret them in ways whose invalidity is self-evident even to someone with the slightest intelligence, as this founder did in a book he wrote explaining the Ascension