The bringer of truth is he whom the spiritual state and the verified men bear witness to, and the bringer of falsehood is he who establishes the claim of the impossible and denies the truth when questioned.
As for your saying: "Indeed, the outward of the meaning and its inward are equal," it is right and true, and this is my religion, and I did not remain silent about it out of denial; rather, my intention was only to clarify what the [eyes] 1 of the mixed ones witnessed upon the manifestation of the meaning and the viewing of the seen form in the state of manifestation and the unveiling of the cover and veils, and I shall explain it when we reach its proper place.
And as for your saying: "Indeed, I worship the unseen and abandon the speaking, seen person," you, O Sheikh—may God forgive you—have slandered me with this speech, and you have not known from me any such systematic order for it.
And you have made it into two parts by your description and your saying: "And you worshipped the outward person and abandoned the unseen that cannot be perceived," yet you,