Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.44.5

78.44.5

Mullá Muhammad of Yazd, too, was drawn up the castle wall in the same way, and uttered unworthy, loathsome abuse against the three Khalífs, and called all the companions of the Prophet, their followers and next followers, and the saints of past ages, (may God show favour to them !), infidels and adulterers, and represented the Sunnís and the Ahl i Jamá'at as despicable and contemptible, and pronounced every sect except the Shí'ah as erring and leading into error. The differences among the ’Ulamá, of whom one would pronounce a thing as unlawful, and another by some process of argument would pronounce the very same thing lawful, became to his Majesty a cause of unbelief. And since he looked on each of the ’Ulamá of his own age as superior in dignity and worth to Imám i Ghazzálí and Imám i Rází, and since he knew the worthlessness of those of his own time, he inferred the unknown (P. 260) from the known and rejected also their predecessors.