his caliphate and the fact that he spent these two treasures in the way of Allah—that is, in obedience to Him and His Messenger and in whatever draws one nearer to Allah. He did not spend this wealth on permissible personal desires, let alone forbidden ones. Given all this, who would champion Abū Lu’lu’ah except one of those most extreme in disbelief in Allah and His Messenger and in hatred of Islam, and so steeped in ignorance (1) that he does not know Abū Lu’lu’ah’s true condition?

Set aside what is heard and transmitted about those of the past. Let every rational person consider the turmoil, evils, and corruption that arise within Islam in his own age and in times close to it. He will find that most of this comes from the Rāfidah. You will find them among the greatest sources of turmoil and evil, and they never hold back from any turmoil and evil they are capable of creating or from sowing corruption within the Ummah.

We know this through direct observation and widespread corroborating reports, as well as from what took place (2) in our own time beginning with the emergence (3) of Genghis Khan (4), king of the unbelieving Turks, and from the evil that befell Islam.

No rational person can doubt that the ascendancy of the polytheist unbelievers, who neither profess the two testimonies of faith nor acknowledge any of the other Five Pillars, who do not fast the month (5) of Ramadan, do not perform pilgrimage to the Ancient House, and do not believe in Allah, His angels, His Books, His messengers, or the Last Day,