The heretical beliefs and behaviors, the first signs of which began to appear during the time of Uthman after the passing of the Messenger of Allah—who foretold that his Ummah would divide into 73 sects after him, and that only one of these sects would turn toward the light—all unite in the same diseased root despite their conflicting appearances on the branches: dry reason and satanic imagination...
The Companions, the fundamental structure of the Ummah, say:
"When we listened to him, it was as if there were a bird of light on our heads, and if we moved our eyelashes, it would fly away; we would remain frozen in place."
As the ecstasy and submission represented by the Companions began to crust over with time, it was inevitable that the field would be covered by the smoke of reason rather than the fire of the heart; that is what happened, and subsequently, the divisions and dissents, which first emerged as a political conflict and were always steered by the Jews, gave way to doctrinal heresies.
In the book, false and heretical sects that fall outside the understanding of the "Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah" are dissected in a historical progression starting from their first examples and linked to the present day, and the purpose is expressed as follows: The cause is to find Islam as it is and to reveal the sublime and abstract truth of the religion; not to fabricate and sacrifice it to one's own delusion of truth...