points to what befell them of the colors of slaughter and mass killing, for it took

in a single batch the lives of tens of thousands of them as a result of those unjust fatwas known as the Hamidian Fatwas which the fanatical men of religion from the opponents in that existing era presented to him.

And there are various articles in different books and magazines that include throwing [accusations] against them of apostasy from religion and their departure from the Islamic circle and the path of truth and uprightness, to the end of what is there of that which establishes that they are the ones intended and to them is the indication by what I cited of His saying, the Exalted, in the Quran and the saying of the Messiah in the Gospel, and it was narrated in the book “[The Imami Shiites]” by one of the scholars of the outwardist Shiites.

[4] From our master, Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq—His might was mighty—what this is its text: “May Allah curse the extremists, why were they not Christians, why were they not Qadiriyyah, why were they not Murji'ah, why were they not Haruriyyah.”