If this house were God, our Lord, He would have rained fire down upon us from above. For we performed a pre-Islamic pilgrimage, A futile one, leaving neither east nor west. And we left between Zamzam and Safa Funeral processions seeking none but their Lord as Lord. And the Hashishiyya inflicted terrible devastation upon the land and terrified the great and intimidated them. And the Monotheists persecuted Ibn Rushd the philosopher and shunned him after having honored him. And the Mahdi of Sudan was a tyrannical ruler, harsh and unmerciful, inflicting severe punishment upon his enemies and opponents. Their governments lamented injustice and were unjust, and they awaited an Imam to fill the earth with justice, yet they themselves filled the earth with injustice. So we saw no justice from the Sunnis nor from the Shiites, "All of them are in the same mire." And the justice that the proponents of the awaited Mahdi spoke of was not realized in much or little. Instead, injustice was met with injustice, and a people aspiring to justice had their hopes dashed. Yes, the doctrines of these sects and their secrets, and what has been said about their teachings, are contradictory. For while the supporters of the Isma'ilis say they forbade wine and prohibited marriage to one woman if their opponents accuse them of drinking wine and assaulting women. And what has increased the confusion of thoughts and the contradiction in mentioning beliefs is the scarcity of writings and teachings attributed to them. But however much the differing parties disagree on beliefs