and granted victory—is there a Rāfidī army (1); nor is there any Rāfidī among the kings who supported Islam, upheld it, and fought [its enemy] (2), or among the ministers with praiseworthy records.

Most often, you find the Rāfidah either among (3) heretics who are hypocritical (4) and godless, or among ignorant people who know neither (5) the transmitted texts nor rational proofs. They have grown up in deserts and mountains, or have secluded themselves from (6) the Muslims and thus have not kept company with people of knowledge and religion. Alternatively, they are people driven by their own desires, some of whom have thereby acquired leadership and wealth, or [have] (7) a lineage to which they are fanatically attached, as did [the people of] (8) pre-Islamic ignorance.

As for those whom the Muslims recognize as people of knowledge and religion, not one of them is a Rāfidī, for the ignorance and injustice in the Rāfidah’s doctrine are manifest. Indeed, you find Rāfidism (9) most conspicuous among the worst sects, such as the Nusayriyyah, the Ismāʿīliyyah, and the heretical followers of Sufi orders (10). They moreover exhibit such—