Thus, he is engaged in plotting against Islam, turning its followers away from its path, branding the people of truth with labels such as Mujabbirah (advocates of compulsion), accusing the virtuous among the people of the sunnah of lacking insight, defaming them before the ignorant with falsehood, and assaulting those who uphold the rights of Allah and defend His sunnah and religion.

Whenever they kindle a fire for war against His allies, Allah extinguishes it. They strive throughout the land spreading corruption, and Allah does not love the corrupters.

[The Failure of Innovated Creeds Before the Creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jama'ah]

(The Failure of Innovated Creeds Before the Creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jama'ah) Moreover, ever since these divergent views arose within Islam, these innovations appeared in early times, spread among both the elite and the common people, and their hearts were made to imbibe love for them—until they contended over them, claiming religious devotion or scrupulous concern for the transmitted reports—you would never find their call having spread from ten successive Islamic pulpits. Nor was it possible for their word to become ascendant among the Muslims, or for their doctrine to become manifest within Islam. Rather, it remained defeated, lowly, and abandoned.

Yet the word of the people of the sunnah is manifest; their schools shine like the sun; the standards of truth are radiant; their banners are renowned for victory; and their enemies are subdued and vanquished. Their merits are proclaimed from the pulpits, their virtues recorded in books and registers, sermons are opened and concluded with them, truth is distinguished from falsehood and judgments are rendered by them, gatherings are convened and established upon them, and they are expounded from teaching chairs, studied, and taught.

The doctrine of the people of innovation has never become manifest except through an overpowering ruler or a defiant, wicked devil, who secretly leads people astray through his innovation, or