As for establishing the prayer, it is our knowledge and our establishment. Allah said: {And do not be loud in your prayer nor silent in it} (Al-Isra 110).

This points to the fact that it [Prayer] is Gnosis [Ma'rifa]. The proof is that the commanded prayer is not through the movements of the limbs and their variation among nations and laws in the outward; as for the inward, there is no variation in it.

And He said: {And establish the prayer; indeed, the prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing, and the remembrance of Allah is greater} (Al-Ankabut 45). And He said: {And mentions the name of his Lord and prays} (Al-A'la 15).

This points to the fact that the one who remembers his Lord is a worshiper [Musalli].

Abu Shuaib [Muhammad ibn Nusayr] said in the (Book of the Example and the Image): The five prayers are Muhammad, Fatir [Fatima], al-Hasan, al-Husayn, and Muhsin.

Taqiyya has been obligatory upon the believers since Cain killed Abel

Ishaq said in the (Book of the Path): Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah told me, from Salih ibn Uqba, from his father, from al-Sadiq [Imam Jafar], that a man entered upon him and said: "Are you the one who says 'If you have attained knowledge [Ma'rifa], I do not care if I do not pray'?" He [the Imam] said: "They [the Imams] are the Prayers. We are better than