Why did the Exalted not name for us these esoteric religious knowledges and the luminous and human manifestations in the heavenly books except by the names of these worldly exoteric things?

Among what proves this is what the Lord Christ manifested upon himself of crucifixion and killing, yet Allah the Almighty declared him transcendent [from it] by His—the Glorified's—saying: {And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but it was made to appear so to them} (An-Nisa: 157). This is the affirmation in appearance (al-manzar) and the negation in reality and essence (al-haqiqa wa al-jawhar), as it came from the Scholar (Al-'Alim) in the Book of Al-Asus (Kitab al-Asus) in his word to the questioner when he asked him, saying: "What is the affirmation of the Lord from His negation?" He said: "Like the moon, it shows its light as being from the light of the sun... etc."

And if it is said to us: "Why did the Almighty not name for us these Inward religious knowledges, and the Luminous and Humanly Manifestations (Al-Thuhurat al-Nuraniyya wa al-Bashariyya) in the Heavenly Books, except by the names of these Outward worldly things?"

Then we say to him: The reason is that it is not permissible to disclose the Divine Wisdom (Al-Hikma al-Ilahiyya) to the disbeliever, who is the enemy of Allah and the enemy of the believers, and who persists in denying it, rejecting it, slandering it, and stoning those who