পৃষ্ঠা 54: প্রথম অধ্যায়: দূরবর্তী আলামতসমূহ যা ইতিমধ্যে প্রকাশ পেয়ে অতিক্রান্ত হয়েছে

Mention of the state of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah al-Fatimi and some of his accounts

Mention of some tribulations of the Fatimids

Mention of the tribulation of the Fatimids and their seizure of the Maghreb and Egypt

Then they continued in decline until nothing remained of the Caliphate for them except the mere name, and the Seljuk dynasty gained dominance over most of the lands. The last of them in Iraq was al-Musta'sim, who was killed by the Tatars, and thereafter they moved to Egypt.

Their era was replete with scholars in every discipline: exegesis (tafsir), Hadith, grammar, linguistics, Quranic recitations, jurisprudence (fiqh), theology (kalam), history, and other fields, such that the era of al-Rashid was named "the Bride of the Age."

And among them: the tribulation of the Fatimids:

And their seizure of the Maghreb and Egypt for approximately three hundred years, their propagation of Rafidism, their support for the Batini doctrine, and their heresy in religion.

Their seizure of the territory of Fustat was in the year three hundred and eight AH, and its liberation from them was at the hands of Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, al-Malik al-Nasir, in the year four hundred and sixty-four; may Allah have mercy upon his soul and reward him well on behalf of Islam.

Among the tribulations of these people was that al-Hakim among them built an estate, furnished it, and seated jurists and Hadith scholars therein; then, after three years, he demolished it and executed the jurists and Hadith scholars.

And that al-Zahir ibn al-Hakim gathered two thousand six hundred and sixty slave-girls adorned with their jewelry in a palace, and ordered its doors to be walled up until all of them died. After six months, he set fire to them, burning them along with their garments and jewelry. May Allah not show mercy to him, nor show mercy to those who succeeded him. Al-Suyuti mentioned this in "Husn al-Muhadarah."

Ibn Abi Hajalah said in "al-Sukkurdan": "Indeed, al-Hakim killed countless scholars, ordered that the Companions be reviled, and commanded that this be inscribed upon the doors of the mosques and streets; then, after a while, he effaced it. He demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Qumamah) and built a mosque in its place, and then later restored it to how it was."

He built schools and placed scholars and sheikhs in them, then executed them and demolished the schools. He forbade the eating of jute mallow (molokhia) and watercress (jirjir), justifying their prohibition by claiming that Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) was fond of jute mallow, and 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) of watercress.