some how to ABDULLAH IBN SABA, as the founderof the sect.

IBN SABA is said to have been a jew convert inthe life of Imam Ali. This claim or suggestion seemsvery strange to us! If you study all the SHIITE'SBOOKS you find in them no least interst to have beenshown to the said man; and rather in contrast, all havedeclared him a misled heretic, and in some traditionswe read that Imam Ali himself has condemned theman to death! After all IBN SABA'S very existence isunder question, and some of the scholars doubt if sucha man did ever exist! Even if we don't take him as afictitious and imaginary man, he is of sure misled andastray in religion and far out of the path of truth.

57 THE SHIITE'S GEOGRAPHY

Important to say that IRAN has not always been acenteral group of the SHIITE SECT. In the first century of Islam. they had different centers in KUFEH, YEMAN and even in Medina.

Contrary to the poisonous propagandas of the