what all the narrators of the articles agree upon is that this call was not initiated by someone affiliated with a religion or a believer in a sect supported by prophethood for its course leads to the withdrawal from religion as a hair is withdrawn from dough. rather a group of zoroastrians mazdakites a group of atheist dualists and a large group of atheist early philosophers consulted and struck the arrows of opinion in deducing a plan that would alleviate for them what had befallen them from the domination of the people of religion and relieve them of the distress of what had befallen them from the matter of the muslims until they had silenced their tongues from speaking. because of their belief in denying the creator rejecting the messengers and denying the resurrection the gathering and the return to god in the end and they claimed that after we knew that all the prophets were deceived and corrupted they enslave creation by what they imagine to them of the arts of magic and sorcery and the mother of muhammad has grown and his call has spread in the countries and his authority has expanded and his methods and power have become consistent until they have seized the kingdom of our ancestors and have been engrossed in enjoying the states despising our minds and they have covered the face of the earth with length and breadth and there is no hope of resisting them with fighting and no way to bring them down from what they insist on except by deceit and trickery and if we confronted them with the call to our doctrine they would rebel.
مما تطابق عليه نقلة المقالات قاطبة ان هذه الدعوة لم يفتتحها منتسب الى ملة ولا معتقد لنحلة معتضد بنبوة فان مساقها ينقاد الى الانسلال من الدين كانسلال الشعرة من العجين ولكن تشاور جماعة من المجوس والمزدكية وشرذمة من الثنوية الملحدين وطائفة كبيرة من ملحدة الفلاسفة المتقدمين وضربوا سهام الرأي في استنباط تدبير يخفف عنهم ما نابهم من استيلاء اهل الدين وينفس عنهم كربة ما دهاهم من امر المسلمين حتى اخرسوا السنتهم عن النطق بما هو معتقدهم من انكار الصانع وتكذيب الرسل وجحد الحشر والنشر والمعاد الى الله في آخر الامر وزعموا انا بعد أن عرفنا ان الانبياء كلهم ممخرقون ومنمسون فانهم يستعبدون الخلق بما يخيلونه اليهم فنون الشعبذة والزرق وقد تفاقم ام محمد واستطارت في الاقطار دعوته واتسعت ولايته واتسقت اسابه وشوكته حتى استولوا على ملك اسلافنا وانهمكوا في التنعم في الولايات مستحقرين عقولنا وقد طبقوا وجه الارض ذات الطول والعرض ولا مطمع في مقاومتهم بقتال ولا سبيل الى استنزالهم عما اصروا عليه الا بمكر واحتيال ولو شافهناهم بالدعاء الى مذهبنا لتنمروا