their belief, although they might call themselves theSHIITE of Imam Ali and mingle their names with ours.

The leading SHIITES and the orthodox havealways rejected the two groups who overvalue orundervalue the Imam, and have called them, and takenthem as heretics, FOR GOING TO EXTREMES

45 THE PROPHET'S COMPANIONS AT THE COURT OFWISDOM AND HISTORY

WE BELIEVE that there were many great men ofdevotion and chastity among the companious of the prophet; but all of them were not so, because the HOLY QURN declares many among them as being kypocrites!. [1]

There were also men who broke their allegiancewith the VICEGERENT OF GOD, after the prophet, and made wars and shed the blood of thousands of Muslims upon the soil.

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( THEVERSESIN: Sq S 92 andS 36 WHICHIS CALLED THEHYPOCRITES )