The purpose of the plots is to divide you, to make enemies and to create various factions and groups, with all of them being enemies of one another so that the outcome would be to their benefit. Should we not wake up? For how long should we be negligent? They made us negligent for many long years and duped us. Should we still not wake up? Should you of the university not wake up? You the clergy, should you not wake up? They robbed us and ruled us by means of this discord that they created. They tortured our youth to a great extent in the prisons and behaved with our clergymen in the way that you saw; and similarly with all other strata of the people. Should we still not wake up? Should we still have differences over petty matters that are nothing and fall upon one another? Should the preachers, the prayer leaders and the academicians all be at loggerheads with one another? Should we not take notice that other hands have come in and are doing all this? Should not this nation be alive to the fact that a hundred factions have announced their formation within the span of two months? This is not by chance. It is that some deliberate hands are at work to drive you of this secret of yours; the key to victory. They have realized that your unity defeated them.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam, V 8, P 404