and the substance of that applies completely to the state of those who say [and believe] in the divinity of the Commander of the Faithful, for they were reviled, persecuted, and exemplary punished for the sake of righteousness, which is the great secret and the core inward deposited with them.

Does the came of His saying, the Exalted, not depict for you their state and the state of their opponents after the revelation of the Quran just as it depicted the state of the believers and the state of the stubborn ones during the circumstances of its revelation:[“Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed. * And when they passed by them, they would exchange glances. * And when they returned to their people, they would return exultant. * And when they saw them, they said, "Indeed, these are truly astray."”] ¹ , how much and how often the arrogant ones mocked them, laughed at them, exchanged glances at them, and threw [accusations] of disbelief and misguidance against them during the era of the tyrannical Bani Umayya, and in the time of the transgressing Abbasids, and this massacre of Sultan Selim, the Ottoman Turk,