[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 226.3 # The Rashīdī History 226.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 226.3 - **Language:** English ### [226.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.226.3) After perusing this book and weighing its contents, it seemed clear \[to us\] that the author of it was of a false sect, who had gone against the Book and the Sunna, and did not belong to any denomination of the people of Truth. His pretension is that God hath commanded him to do away with all differences among the people; (Firstly) in the developments and ordinances of the Holy Law, and to make them as they were in his time, with neither increase nor diminution; and (Secondly) in the fundamental principles among all the peoples of the earth. \[In this\] he is certainly lying, and inclined to heresy and schism. It is the duty of such as have the power, to obliterate such a book, and a religious necessity for them to stamp out and extirpate this sect; to prohibit persons from following it and acting according to its dogmas. If they persist in their belief and abandon not their false creed, it is necessary for the security of Musulmans, from their evil example, to repulse them with chastisement and \[even\] death. If they repent and abandon the sect, they must be commanded to follow the teaching of Abu Hanifa." - [Previous: 226.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.226.2) - [Next: 226.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.226.4) - [Up: 226](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.226) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.226.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.226.3) · Pramāṇa