This means: until the seeker of esoteric knowledge reaches his goal in religious gnosis; at that point, the performance of the exoteric obligation falls away from him, except among the Opposites for the purpose of concealment (al-tastur).

Among what indicates and confirms this meaning is His saying, the Almighty, in Surat al-A'raf:

{Those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel, who enjoins upon them what is right and forbids them what is wrong and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil things and relieves them of their burden and the shackles which were upon them. So they who have believed in him, honored him, supported him and followed the light which was sent down with him—it is those who will be the successful.} (Al-A'raf: 157).

Its esoteric meaning is: that the believers who follow the Greatest Name—according to what He intended for them of the divine esoteric sciences and knowledges—are those whom the Almighty commands in His Mighty Book with "the Right" (al-Ma‘rūf), which refers to the obligatory rights [due] to the believers; and He forbids them from "the Wrong" (al-munkar), which refers to the prohibitions [harmful] to the believers.

He makes lawful for them "the Good Things" (al-ṭayyibāt), which are the Esoteric Sciences, and He prohibits for them "the Impure