Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward! But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret. So your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.... [up to his saying]: Moreover, when you fast, do not be of a sad countenance like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. So your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

And with this meaning, in the seventh chapter of the Gospel of (Matthew): “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”

And of the divine ruse (Makr) of Allah is the saying of the Commander of the Faithful, may mercy be upon him: “I am the servant of Allah and the brother of the Messenger of Allah.”

And of the Prophet's ruse against them is his saying to their devils: “Welcome, welcome to the suns of the lands and their moons.”

And of that is the saying of Master [Ja'far] al-Sadiq when they asked him about the first and the second, so he said: “They were two