Our Master—exalted be his glory—said to him: "You shall take the landmarks of your religion from one whom the Nasiba [adversaries] charge with Rafd [rejection], whom the Shia charge with Ghuluww [extremism], and whom the Ghalia charge with Kufr [disbelief]; the Truth is there." The questioner said: "I found none with this description except our Lord Abu Shu’ayb Muhammad ibn Nusayr—peace be upon him—so I knew the indication was toward him. I followed him and was guided to the Truth through him."
Take then, my brother, your religion and your science from its men from the house of the Sheikh and Lord Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khasibi. The completion of the testament for you is: the kindness to brothers, maintaining connection with them, and guarding against wronging them, for they are the means connected to God.
(546) As Lord Muhammad—exalted be his glory—said: "Every lineage and descent is severed on the Day of Resurrection except my lineage and my descent"—meaning by it: the descent of faith in religion, and the connection of brothers among the believers. Whoever has no connection to his brothers has no faith.
(547) According to the saying of Lord Muhammad—exalted be his glory: "The faith of a believer is not complete until he is satisfied for his brother with what he is satisfied with for himself." May God provide us and you with science and action by which we seek aid in this world and the Hereafter, by His favor, generosity, grace, and mercy.
Interpretation of Miscellaneous Verses
This is among what my Master and Sheikh Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn al-Hasan—may God be pleased with him—related and interpreted from what he included in his Yusufite Epistle. I have extracted from it what I shall mention, God the Almighty willing. He had composed it—may God have mercy on him—before my meeting with him for some who had questioned him. Among that is his narration regarding the words of the Almighty: {Indeed, I saw eleven stars}1 and what follows.