The Nāṣirī Generations 287.1.1

287.1.1

The reason for despatching forces into the territory and against the fortresses of Mulhidistan was this. At the outset of the career and time of Hasan-i-Sabbah—God's curse upon him!—who instituted the rules of the Mulahidah sect, and founded the canons of that heresy, he restored and strengthened the fortresses of Alamut which he purchased, along with the fortress of Lanbah-Sar, which was [afterwards became, and was at this time] the capital of the chief Mulahid [heretic], whom that sect used to style "The Maulana" — God curse them all! — from the Dailamis for a large sum of money. Having brought there a pregnant female slave of his own, he represented to people, saying : “ She is pregnant by Mustansir, the Misri, [the Ismaili Khalifah of Egypt], and, flying from enemies, I have brought her to this place, for, from the lineage of this burden [which she bears] will spring the Imam-i-Akhir-i-Zaman and Mahdi-i-Awan," accompanied with vain and impotent words, the like of which no sensible person would allow to pass in his imagination, or enter his heart. God curse him !