[^9] 9- اَلا تَرَونَ أَنَّ الحَقَّ لا يُعمَلُ بِهِ...

(تحف العقول ص245) And your calamity is greater than all the people because the stations of scholars have been snatched off from you (the rulers have forcibly occupied the stations of ulema & scholars & you are following the occupiers blindly). Wish, you knew this since, (from Islamic point of veiw) the implantation & exercising of the ordinances & matters should be in the hands of God recognizing scholars who are the trustees of His legal & forbidden. But you have been deprived of that post.

And that you have not been deprived of that but for the reason that you have detached yourselves from the right &, of your differences in the Sunnah (tradition) after the appearance of conspicuous arguments.

Had you been patient upon the torture (of enemy) & had endured & borne the expenditure on Allah's course the matters of Allah (the management of Muslim affairs) would have come to your hands & those would have originated from you & returned to you but, you got the tyrants imposed at your place & surrendered the affairs of Allah to them. They practice upon doubtful (ambiguous) & move on the course of lustful desires.

Your running away from the death & attachment with the life, which must part from you, made them imposed upon that (mentioned above).