“It’s over apostate, you’ve lost.”
“I die for Ali and the Ahl al-Bayt.”
“. . . What?”
“You’ll see.”
It is said that the Abbasid Caliph Al-Maumun declared war upon the Byzantinians for abandoning the works of Plato and Aristotle and adopting Christianity, which he considered as "culturally inferior" to the great civilization of the Greeks.