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thirty-five years Hassan Sabbâh took many lives and misled many
others out of their faith. Eventually he went to Hell in 518 [A.D.
1124]. Of his successors, his grandson Ahund Hassan, who
became their chief in 557, was a zindiq, more base than all the
others. It is this villain who first called his adherents Alawî in
order to deceive Muslims. In 559, on the seventeenth of Ramadân,
which was when hadrat Alî had been martyred, he mounted the
minber and said, “I have been sent by Alî. I am the imâm of all
Muslims. Islam does not have a foundation. Everything depends
on the heart. If a person’s heart is clean, sinning will not harm him.
I have made everything halâl. Live as you wish!” Then they drank
wine, men and women altogether. It was made their new year’s
day. This heretic was slain by his wife’s brother in 561. His
grandson Jelâl-ad-dîn Hassan gave up this aberrant way. He
reported to the Khalîfa that he had entered the Madh-hab of Ahl
as-Sunna. He collected the heretical books written by Hassan
Sabbâh and had them burnt. He died in 618. He was succeeded by
his son Ahund Alâaddîn Muhammad, the seventh ruler of the
state of Ismâîliyya. This person chose his ancestors’ heretical way
and made harâms halâl. His son Ahund Ruqn-ad-dîn had this foul
person killed in his bed in 652 and appointed the Shiite scholar
Nasîr-ad-dîn Tûsî, who had been imprisoned by his father, as his
vizier. However, he was executed by Hulâghu’s brother in
Transoxiana in 654. Hulâghu put the heretics of Ismâîlî to the
sword and relieved Muslims from these zindiqs. Thus the saying,
“To an ungodly fellow, a faithless brute,” manifested itself once
more.
The (encyclopedic) book Kâmûs-ul-a’lâm gives the following
definition of the entry ‘Ismâîliyya’: “One of the heretical groups
who infiltrated among Shiites. They have been called so because
they recognized Ismâîl, Imâm Ja’fer Sâdîq’s eldest son, who died
as the noble Imâm was alive yet, as the last imâm. They follow Ibni
Saba’. They believe in reincarnation. They call harâms ‘halâl’.
They commit all sorts of immoral acts without feeling slightest
shame. The heretical group called Qarâmitîs, who shed much
Muslim blood, and the villain named Hassan Sabbâh, and the State
of Fâtimîs, who strove to demolish Islam in Egypt, were all
Ismâîlîs. The extreme ones of heretical groups and Druzis and
Hurûfîs are their continuations.” It is written in the book Munjid
that they call themselves Alawî (Alevî).
Hurûfîs claim to come together in the unity of (Muhammad-
Alî). Accordingly, the As-hâb-i-kirâm, who are praised and lauded
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