Chapter Tow: The Knowledge of God Through Existence and Direct

[12] We narrated from Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Al-Mufaddal, from his grandfather Al-Mufaddal, peace be upon him, who said: Abu Sa'id Jubayri Al-Tahhan narrated to me, saying: I heard Al-Sadiq, may His might be glorified, say:

"O people of faith and places of concealment, reflect and remember during the heedlessness of the devils. For whoever claims that he knows God without direct observation has disbelieved, gone astray, and fallen into error.

The sign of the ignorant doubter is the violating of the concealed veil and the divulging of the hidden secret, so that people may know what he himself does not know. So if the servant denies what he has seen, he is even more a denier of what he will see."

[13] And from Muhammad ibn Sinan, from Yunus ibn Dhabyan, peace be upon them both, who said: I heard Al-Sadiq, may His might be glorified, say: