does not direct his understanding, thought, and memory except toward Allah, His Messenger, and His religion.

This discourse indicates the obligation of establishing Dissimulation (Taqiya) and the prohibition of broadcasting the Inward Secrets. The proof of this is the establishment of these Outward (Zahiri) religious laws by the Prophets and Messengers for the sake of teaching and discipline.

Truly, he who abandons the establishment of the Five Outward Boundaries (Al-Hudud al-Khamsa) is not a wise man; just as he who establishes them [merely] for the sake of literal piety and belief in them [as the ultimate reality] is also not a wise man. The Creator (Al-Bari), glory be to Him, made His discourse to us in His Mighty Book through these Outward forms as a cipher (ramz) against the deniers, to veil the Inward from the rejecters, and to guide the Gnostic Believers (Al-Mu'minun al-'Arifun) to the Inward Meanings. For it is not permissible to broadcast them to the rejecters, nor is it permissible to conceal them from the believers.

Among the signs indicating this meaning is the saying of the Almighty in Surah Al-Kahf:

{So send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city and let him look to which is the purest food and let him bring you provision from it and let him be cautious (walyatalattaf) and let no one be aware of you. Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or