Thus, Amir al-mu'minin's words make this fact clear that the misguidance of Kharijites was not
wilful but under Satan's influence. They mistook wrong as right and stuck to it. On the other
hand, the position of misguidance of Mu`awiyah and his party was that they rejected right
realising it as right and appropriated wrong as the code of their conduct fully knowing that it
was wrong.
Their audacity in the matter of religion reached the stage that it can neither be regarded as a
result of misunderstanding nor can it be covered under the garb of error of judgement,
because they openly transgressed the limits of religion and paid no heed to the Prophet's
injunctions in comparison with their own view.
