this nation did not exceed its sins with transgression and misguidance except for what i have told you about the umayyads and the marwanids and their workers and those who did not believe in their disbelief until the calamities arose and these common people followed them so that the prevailing thing in this generation was disbelief which is likening and compulsion so their disbelief became greater than the disbelief of those who came before in the actions that are immorality and they became partners with those who disbelieved among them by taking them as allies and not declaring them disbelievers. god almighty said and whoever among you takes them as allies then indeed he is one of them.
وقد كانت هذه الأمة لا تجاوز معاصيها الإثم والضلال، إلا ما حكيت لك عن بني أمية وبني مروان وعمالها، ومن لم يدن بإكفارهم، حتى نجمت النوابت، وتابعتها هذه العوام، فصار الغالب على هذا القرن الكفر، وهو التشبيه والجبر، فصار كفرهم أعظم من كفر من مضى في الأعمال التي هي الفسق، وصاروا شركاء من كفر منهم، بتوليهم وترك إكفارهم. قال الله عز من قائل ومن يتولهم منكم فإنه منهم .