The Prince Hasan bin Makzun (may Allah sanctify his soul) pointed to this meaning in one of his poems, saying:

"And the Jihad of my self is to compel it toward Him, And the stubbornness of one who refutes me in my desire [for Him]."

Know, O seeker, that for every form of these five acts of worship, there is a weight [wazn] that corresponds to the words of the Exalted, the words of the Messengers, the people of narration, and to which the proof of reason [hujjat al-aql] testifies. Let us strike an example for you with the mandated Fasting, which is our current subject: He (the Exalted) has mandated the fasting of the magnified month of Ramadan, which is the concealment of His secret from the deniers and repudiators. He made outward fasting mandatory when among the Opposites [Ad-dad], but then He mandated its prohibition [breaking the fast] in private gatherings and among the believers. This is due to an inward meaning that must never be neglected: that the obligation of establishing the Fast Outward [Zahir] among the Opposites [Ad-dad] is like the necessity of affirming humanity [Bashariyya] for the Person of the Month and the persons of its days and nights when among the Opposites. Breaking the fast among the Opposites is like making permissible the disclosure of the secrets of the persons of the Month and revealing their affair to the Opposites.

The prohibition of eating during it serves to indicate the prohibition of speaking about the knowledge of the secrets of its days and nights. Likewise,