The point here is that the innovations they have introduced are reprehensible. Likewise, what has been introduced by those who counter one innovation with another and are associated with the sunnah is also reprehensible innovation. The sunnah is what the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—instituted, and it is free of every innovation. Thus, making the day of ‘Āshūrā’ a festival is an innovation originating among the innovations of the Nawāsib. Making it an occasion of mourning is an even more abhorrent innovation, and one well known among the Rāfidah. We have discussed these matters at length s, b . . . these matters, and Allah’s help is sought. .

[Section: The Rāfidī’s sixth claim—that ‘Alī, may Allah be pleased with him, had his supplications answered—and its refutation]

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The Rāfidī said (1): “The sixth is that his supplications were answered (2). He prayed against Busr ibn Artā’ah (3), asking Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to deprive him of his reason, and his mind became deranged. He prayed that al-‘Ayzār (4) would become blind, and he became blind. He prayed against Anas (5) when