(Al-Thuhur) symbolized by it—with one of the acts that Moses prohibited therein—meaning to make it [the Manifestation] a passive effect (maf'ulan) or to attribute it to something among the manufactured things (masnu'at) and passive objects and the perishing earthly [things] that apply to the creation; then he must undergo the metamorphosis (Al-Maskh) symbolized by the "killing" which Moses, peace be upon him, brought by the command of Allah. This is because he would have treated His—the Almighty's—Manifestation (Thuhur), symbolized by the Sabbath, or the Person (Al-Shakhs) symbolized by it, as one of the perishing earthly passive effects (maf'ulat).

If His—the Almighty's—intent in this saying were the Outward (Al-Zahir), as believed by the people of disbelief and misguidance, then it would have been mandatory to censure the Lord Christ, for he invalidated and suspended the outward law of the people of the Sabbath which they followed. Likewise, our master Muhammad (PBUH) would have been equally deserving of punishment for not establishing the outward fasting [of the Sabbath], as he was the most knowledgeable of all people regarding the Sabbath and that which the Almighty commanded His servants in the Torah concerning the obligation of its outward fasting, which the Almighty informed us about in many places in the Torah.

Among them is His saying in the thirty-first chapter of Exodus: "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: And you, speak to the children