Know that these narrations and verses mentioned regarding the prohibition of wine and the narrations and verses mentioned regarding its permissibility are none other than like the narrations and verses mentioned regarding the rejection of the outward of worship and the narrations and verses mentioned regarding its establishment—example for example and measure for measure. If the interpretation of these verses and narrations were not carried out in this manner, they would contradict one another. This is impossible in the right of the Exalted and the right of the Infallibles, because the verses of the Books and the speech of the People of the House include that which is symbolic, that which is concealment, that which is explicit, and among them is the decisive and the allegorical.

The books of Oneness have indicated these meanings in many places, and I have mentioned a portion of them to you in this epistle. I will increase the clarification for you, by the will of Allah the Exalted, O inquirer, regarding the knowledge of the praised and the censured names mentioned in the Wise Remembrance, which is what was cited by Sayyid Abu Shu'ayb Muhammad bin Nusayr—may the blessings of Allah be upon him—in the Book of Form and Parable, with the chain of narration from Idris, from Zaid bin Talhah, from Yunus, who said: Al-Sadiq said, "Every praised name is specifically censured.