then after that he makes them recognize the explanation of the inwardness of the prayer and its boundaries, its rituals, its commands, its prohibitions, and the station of the masters and the disciples, outwardly and inwardly, then he makes them recognize the status of the scholar and his sanctity and urges them upon the seeking of knowledge and diligence in its acquisition and the honoring of the scholar and the standing for his service and his obedience and the action according to its requirement because he is a pillar of the religion, and the adherence to precaution which is the fortress of the believers, and the concealment of this matter except from its people, and the Gnosis of the believing, Gnosis-knowing one, and the reason for the lapses that enter upon the believers from which path and from which reason.
Then he supports after that with the reports narrated on the authority of the advanced masters, which they narrated on the authority of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, transcended his might, and on the authority of the Imams, transcended their might, then he recites to them the inward, concealed sciences and the hidden, protected secrets according to what their capability tolerates and their minds expand for it, and that most of their cares, their purpose,




