places, as well as when they aided the Christians (1) against the Muslims in Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere on numerous occasions. Among the greatest of these (2) were the calamities that befell the Muslim world in the fourth and seventh Islamic centuries. For (3) when the unbelieving Turks entered the Muslim lands and so many Muslims were killed (4) that none but the Lord of all creation could number them, the Rāfidah were among the people most hostile to the Muslims and most supportive of the unbelievers (5). Likewise, their assistance to the Jews is well known (6), so much so that people used them like donkeys in the Jews’ service.

[General remarks concerning the Rāfidah]

[The Rāfidah’s resemblance to the Jews and Christians]

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This author named his book (The Path of Honor in Knowing the Imamate) (7), though it deserves to be called (The Path of Regret). Likewise, one who claims purity yet belongs to those whose hearts Allah does not intend to purify—being instead among the adherents of superstition, [false objects of worship], and hypocrisy (8)—would more aptly be described as impure and sullied than [purified] (9).