Similar to this is what the author of Al-Risala al-Misriyya (The Egyptian Epistle) mentioned regarding this meaning in its first chapter, saying: Abu al-Hasan 'Ali bin Sa'id bin al-Hayyaj (may God be pleased with him) narrated to me, saying: Abu Sa'id Maymun ibn al-Qasim al-Tabarani narrated to me, saying: I asked the trustworthy Sheikh Abu al-Husayn Muhammad bin 'Ali al-Jilli—may God brighten their faces—about the saying of our Master al-Sadiq—from him be mercy: "Our Shia are not born of adulteresses in Jahiliyya (Ignorance) or in Islam."

He said: "The Outward (Zahir) of the hadith suffices for its Inward (Batin), in that the Shia of the Family of Muhammad are not born of adulteresses and are not children of fornication in Jahiliyya or Islam, out of honor for the Shia of the Family of Muhammad and as a negation of obscenity (Al-Khana) from them. And its Inward meaning is: that the believer does not hear this knowledge except through sound fatherhood and an eloquent doctrine; he does not hear it from fornication, nor from a parent who lacks [spiritual] fatherhood, nor from one whose lineage is unsound.

Among the firm sayings regarding the performance of outward obligations with the Opposites (Al-Addad) and the negation of their performance in private and among believers,