1548. Any among them who begin to harbor wrong thoughts, from them they dissociate themselves. They cannot remain in their society, but are all alone, in rocky places and elsewhere, and they no longer concern themselves with them. However, there are some societies which coax and compel such a person by different methods, but still it is a kind of dissociation. And because they have not put their conversion to test, they do not want to declare whether those who have once fallen remain so. They only say they do not have any hope of their repentance, not knowing of any examples.