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Can someone help me with this section of the text? I really have problems grasping the meaning of it...

And those who carried the burdens of those defenses were a group of the Mu’tazilah. So (now) they had become encircled by two enemies: Who is "they"? The Ahlu Sunnah?

an occupying enemy from outside the nation with views and a philosophy upon which he was trained from an ancient time Who is "he"? Is it the kuffar from outside the muslim lands?

, and a cruel enemy from inside the nation that the majority were on the verge of joining due to his asceticism while he was far from (grasping) matters of logic. Are those the mutazila?

The distortions of those who mislead from the Jews and the Dualists were broadcast over him. Who is "him"?

The extent of his work was the assault of the Theoreticians (Ahlun-Nazar) while not making a distinction between the enemy and the close friend. And if rule were given to him, he couldn’t defend (the nation) a single hour of a day. Again, who is "him"? Whose "extent of work" is meant? Mutazila?

For this reason, these theoreticians were preoccupied by the former and they fell back from the latter until they completed the refutation of the crypto-infidels (zanaadiqah) Who is meant with "the former" and who with "the latter"?

exposed their distortions, and then demolished the argument of the Hashaweeyah and revealed the feeblemindedness of their views. And mental illnesses, a number of which cannot be held lightly, clung to the psyches of these theoreticians that were passed on to them from their debaters. Who are those "debaters"?