saying: “The Rāfidī is the Jew’s donkey,” because sensible Jews know that this is impossible both rationally and according to revealed law, and that it is like saying, “The roof fell upon them from beneath them,” to which one replies(1): “Neither reason nor Quran.”
The same applies to the claim that Alī was commander over all of Adam’s descendants(2), even though he was born thousands of years after Adam’s death, and that he was commander over prophets who preceded him in both time and rank. This is of the same kind as the claim of Ibn Arabī al-Tā’ī and others like him among the heretical Sufis(3), who say that the prophets derived their knowledge of Allah from the niche of the Seal of the saints, who appeared approximately six hundred years after Muhammad.(4) 206. The Rāfidīs’ claim concerning the imamate is therefore of the same kind as those Sufis’ claim concerning sainthood. Both base their doctrines on lies, exaggeration, shirk, baseless claims, and opposition to the Book, the Sunnah, and the consensus of the ummah’s early generations.
Then this Rāfidī ass says:
“It is explicit on this point.”
Could this constitute proof for anyone possessed of understanding? Or would this be cited as proof by anyone who deserves(5)