and the brothers introduced me to the service and the goodness of love unto the knowledge of God the Exalted, so that which was in my hand of livelihood became tight in that land 1
THE ABERRANT DEPARTURE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MOUNTAIN FROM THE TRUTH
So I journeyed to the land of al-Manasif to the village of al-Khawsah, and I associated with the people of al-Manasif and the people of the mountains and the coasts, and I knew the doctrines of its people, their methodologies, and their paths, and I found most of the people of the mountain had deviated from the truth and the saying of honesty, and inclined toward the corrupt intermediaries (al-asbāb al-fāsida) [deviant Imamic chains], and the ruinous commerce and stagnant wares , and every one of them had spoken constantly 2 of a name without a visible meaning, and every group had resembled 3 its Imam rather than the Commander of the Faithful, His glory is magnificent,