reach its inward meaning, as we have explained them, for those who fear Allah are the believers.

Know, O asker, that His intent, the Exalted, in His aforementioned sayings in the Torah is the inward, as we have previously stated, and not what the People of the Outward (Ahl al-Zahir) desire. This is evidenced by what the Lord Christ (peace be upon him) brought in negating the outward aspects of these sayings and other parts of the outward law. Among those is his saying in the thirteenth chapter of Gospel of Luke: And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and she was bent over and could not stand upright at all. When Jesus saw her, He called her and said to her: "Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity!" And He placed His hands upon her, and immediately she stood straight and glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue answered, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and said to the multitude: "There are six days in which work ought to be done; in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!" The Lord then answered him and said: "You hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away and give it water? And this woman,

being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years, should she not be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" And