This is because their speech has two faces: Special [Khass] speech and General [Amm] speech. This is the reason for Abrogation [al-Nasikh wa al-Mansukh], as the Commander of the Believers informed in Nahj al-Balagha. From this arose the disagreement of the people and their flaws in narrations, due to their lack of knowledge concerning the True Meanings.

The same applies to the outward and inward of these Five Limits [Al-Hudud al-Khamsa] and what has been revealed concerning them of narrations and verses—regarding commands and prohibitions, special and general, the Decisive [Muhkam] and the Allegorical [Mutashabih]. It is not necessary to search here by negating the belief in their outward forms, except for what has been mentioned in them of allegorical, decisive, differing, inward, and outward sayings. This is because there exist in the books of Monotheism [Tawhid] and the Revealed Books many sayings that indicate the obligation of establishing the Outward of the Limits, and many sayings indicating the obligation of rejecting their outward forms, and many sayings indicating the rejection of rejecting their outward forms in the private gatherings of the believers; many sayings indicating the obligation of establishing them among the Opposites; many sayings also indicating that those who know their inward meanings are not burdened with establishing their outward forms; many sayings indicating that one who fulfills the rights of his brothers is not burdened with establishing them; many sayings indicating the obligation of establishing them for Concealment [Tastur]; many sayings indicating the obligation of