Another indication of their extreme ignorance and partisanship is that they take a speechless animal and abuse it without right, having made it represent someone they hate (1). Thus, they take a red ewe, name it Aisha, and pluck out its wool. They also take some of their animals, name some Abū Bakr and others Umar, and beat them without right. They fashion from hays an effigy of a man (2), make it represent Umar, and slit open its belly, claiming that they are eating his flesh and drinking his blood (3).

As for the second approach to answering this objection, we say:

The position of the imams of Islam is that a prescribed practice is not to be abandoned merely because it is performed by people of religious innovation, whether the Rāfidah or anyone else. The legal principles of all the imams accord (4) with this. One example is the issue he mentioned of flattening graves,