This discourse is followed by the names indicating the inward days and nights of the month, which are thirty days and nights, including a specific Safqa [Contact]; knowing this is mandatory for every believer in Allah.

It was also established in this treatise that the Speakers [Nutiqa'] among the Messengers—may Allah's blessings be upon them—did not command the preservation of the form of any outward worship except as an alert to the hidden nature of their secrets: {And Allah presents parables for the people that perhaps they will remember}.

He (may Allah sanctify him) said in one of his poems:

And fasting in the Law of Love is nothing but the preservation of what The Living of Love bore from every dead one.

He (may Allah sanctify him) also pointed to the meaning of the Five Acts of Worship in one of his poems, saying:

Preserving Love is my fasting; and my Hajj is its intention,

Through it my Prayer within my Zakat is found.

The Jihad of my soul is bearing harm within it,

And opposing whoever would refute my Love.

This is supported and confirmed by what the author of the Egyptian Treatise cited in its first chapter regarding the obligation of Taqiyya—which is Fasting—narrating from Abd Allah ibn al-Ala, from Idris,