the womenfolk of the other, helped no unbeliever (1), and abolished none of Islam’s definitively established laws or manifest rites.
Yet despite this, the Rāfidis assist those unbelievers and support them against the Muslims, as people witnessed (2) when Hulagu, ruler of the unbelieving Turks, entered Syria in 658 AH. The Rāfidis living throughout Syria—in its cities and fortified towns, including those from Aleppo and its environs, Damascus and its environs, and elsewhere—were among his foremost supporters and helpers in consolidating his rule and carrying out his orders to bring Muslim rule to an end.
Likewise, everyone—commoners and elites alike—knows what happened in Iraq when Hulagu arrived there, killed the caliph, and shed more blood than Allah alone could number. The caliph’s vizier was Ibn al-Alqamī, whose inner circle consisted of Rāfidis who aided him (3) in this by numerous covert and overt means that would take long to describe.
It has likewise been reported that they were with Genghis Khan (4). Muslims have seen them along the Syrian coast and elsewhere: whenever Muslims and Christians fought, their sympathies lay with the Christians. They supported them as much as they could and resented the conquest of their cities, just as they resented the conquest of Acre and other places. They preferred the Christians to gain ascendancy over the Muslims, so much so that when a rout occurred