And you, O Sheikh, [may God forgive you] 1 , have manifested innovations in your judgment, your personal desire, and your toleration of the corrupters, and you did not uphold the conditions of religion.
[6]Just as our master, the Commander of the Faithful, His glory is magnificent, said: Lo, indeed I fight two men: a man who claimed what is not his, and another who withheld that which is incumbent upon him 2 .
And you, O Sheikh, claimed that which you have no right to, and your student Rabiah outwitted you and cast you into the greatest error, while he has withheld that which God made incumbent upon him, and severed that which God connected him to. And I said: I will bring my book and your book before someone who has no personal objective with me nor with you, and you know that I had [restricted myself] 3 in socializing with the people of the mountain to the companions who agree upon the truth and certainty, [and they are ten out of a hundred] 4 ,