Al-Sayyid al-Makzūn (may Allah sanctify him) pointed to this meaning in his poetry, saying:

You commanded me to veil the revealing of my cover When it showed me its morning within my evening.

"Meaning, that the manifestation of existence in the unveiling of the Great Manifestation (al-Tajallī al-Aʿẓam) indicates the obligation to unveil inward gnosis to its [rightful] people. As for Occultation (al-Ghayba), it points to the obligation of concealment from the disbelievers, and Allah knows best.

The author of the Egyptian Epistle (al-Risāla al-Miṣriyya) narrated in the first chapter, with a chain of transmission to our Master al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him), that he said to Abū Muʿāwiya: 'The parable of our Shia is like the youths of the People of the Cave (Aṣḥāb al-Kahf); they manifested disbelief and harbored faith. When the Day of Resurrection comes, Allah will resurrect them as a community unto themselves. Have you not heard the saying of the Almighty, narrating about Jacob (peace be upon him):

{He said, "O my son, do not relate your vision to your brothers lest they contrive against you a plot. Indeed Satan, to man, is a manifest enemy."} (Yūsuf: 5).