And its evidence is His Almighty's saying, narrating about Mary: {Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful a fast, so I will not speak today to [any] human.} (Maryam: 26).

And the Emir Hasan bin Makzun, may God sanctify him, did well in clarifying the meaning of fasting in his treatise (Risalatihi), saying: "Know that the word fasting (al-Sawm) is posited in the Arabic language for refraining from speech, and it was transferred in the exoteric law from that to abstaining from food, drink, and approaching women," up to his saying: "And its meaning in the esoteric (al-Batin) is safeguarding the secret of God and fasting from conversing with the ignorant."

And in it, he supports His Almighty's informing about the Lady, the Mother of Light, when she said: {Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful a fast, so I will not speak today to [any] human.} (Maryam: 26).

They said: Speak with the authentic of the

narration without a symbol

So I answered them: Is there a rational person

who throws treasures without a safeguard

And he, may God sanctify him, also pointed to this meaning in his poetry, saying:

And this is confirmed by what our luminous Sheikh, may God purify his person, explicitly stated in his poetry, saying: