And you said: "Indeed, a group among them said: the outward of the meaning is its inward; and others said: the outward of the meaning is other than its inward," and they argued for that with dissolved arguments and defective proofs, for which no evidence stands firm, nor any pathway can be established.

And you, O Sheikh, have not heard my speech, nor have you seen me for years, and you have heard nothing but the speech of your Iblis (devil), Rabiah, who seduced you and cast you into evil suspicion. Yet I, by the help and will of God, shall explain that which God has favored me with—of what I have compiled, preserved, and from the virtuous masters narrated and treasured—and it is my religion and my belief, and we shall present it before the hands of the truthful believers, and rub therewith the noses of the envious, self-seeking ones, due to the saying: "A scholar and a learner."

Indeed, address is only for the one who reasons; the rational person is he who knows the truth and follows it, while the rationalizer is he who claims that the truth is with him. The claimant is of two types: a bringer of truth and a bringer of falsehood.