which connects to Jesus, son of Mary. And the matter will remain with you until the Hour. On this basis, he instilled self-confidence in his followers and made them a steadfast moral force.

Attacking the enemies: The Mahdi resorted to attacking the Murabitun and explaining that they were people of falsehood whose fate would be abandonment and defeat. He spent a great deal of time on this. He issued extensive statements to instill a sense of superiority over them in his followers, and to prepare them and incline them to fight them and overthrow them.

He took various approaches to this, beginning with citing a number of hadiths indicating that Islam began as a stranger and would return as a stranger. And another group explaining the signs of the sect through which the strangeness of Islam would occur, to finally declare that this sect is the sect of the Murabitun, as the signs apply to them. They are those who have strayed from the truth and deviated from the path.

After this generalization, the Mahdi intensified his condemnation of the Murabitun, explaining their flaws and their deviation from the truth. In their belief, they are not sincere in the essence of monotheism, as they liken the divine essence to physical bodies. This became clear to him in the debates he held with them. Their rule is tyrannical and oppressive. They have humiliated and tortured many people through their agents, some of whom they killed for their religion after torture, as a lesson to others. They have caused the destruction of crops and offspring, attacked people in taking their possessions, ruined their homes, corrupted their lands, and shed their blood. They have made lawful the consumption of people's wealth unjustly, and taken the wealth of orphans and widows. They have all conspired and cooperated in this, rejoicing.

See also: Ibn Tumart, Majmu' A'azz Ma Yutlab (37), and later, he dedicated a chapter to the sects of the people of falsehood, the veiled ones, and the anthropomorphists, and their signs, and a chapter on what has been narrated about the strangeness of Islam. See: Ibn al-Qattan, Nazm al-Juman (38). It seems that the accusation of anthropomorphism against the Murabitun was driven by propaganda and not by precise scientific observation, as will become clear later. Ibn Tumart, Al-Risala al-Munazzama (39).