The people of the exoteric have used that [literalism], let alone the people of the esoteric. If it were permissible for us to profess religion and believe in the exoteric [aspects] of these five limits and other rituals and rites by which He Almighty addressed us in the revealed Books—as the people of the exoteric interpreted them—in the same way we believe in them according to the view of the People of Monotheism in the esoteric, then it would be permissible for us to equate the evil and the good of which He Almighty informed us in Surat an-Nisā’, saying:

{And give the orphans their properties and do not substitute the evil for the good} (An-Nisā’: 2).

And it would then be permissible for us to believe in darkness just as [we believe in] the light of which He Almighty informed us by His saying:

{And not equal are the blind and the seeing, nor are the darknesses and the light, nor are the shade and the heat.} (Fāṭir: 19-21).

It has been narrated that whoever equates his believing brother with his Nasibi [hostile] enemy, God will cast him headlong on his face into the Fire. If this is the penalty for one who equates a believer and a Nasibi, then what would be the penalty for one who equates the Religion of God with the religion of the Nasibi or other religions of the people of disbelief and delusion?

Furthermore, how could it be deemed acceptable in the minds of the masters of this True Esoteric Religion—which was established from the