The Shiites and the elders, sons of statesmen and those attached to obedience and religious immunity, without love, desire, or fear. And a man from among that group, whose reins were held and whose orators were not watched, and he was ascetic. From the entourage of that assembly, he improvised speech on words and claimed that the soldiers of the Caliphate today are of five divisions: Khurasani, Turki, Mawla, Arab, and Banu, and that he is more than God's bounty and thanks for His goodness and favor, and for all His hands and the blessings He bestowed, and for the comprehensiveness of His consequences and the greatness of His positions, when He united for obedience these different hearts, diverse races, and scattered desires. And you objected to this stubborn speaker and this pretentious sayer who divided these divisions and separated these pillars and distinguished between their lineages and separated their races and distanced their lineages. And you denied that to him with the strongest denial and condemned him with the strongest condemnation, and claimed that they did not depart from agreement or from something close to agreement. And you denied the distance in lineage and the difference in cause, and said: I claim that the Khurasani and the Turki are brothers, and that the womb is one, and that the rule of that East and that lineage over that surface is agreed upon, not disagreed, and close, not far apart. And the customs in origin, if not firmly established, were similar, and the boundaries of the lands encompassing them, if not equal, were proportionate. And it is as if he is Khurasani in general, even if they are distinguished by some characteristics and differ in some aspects. And you claimed that