the Commander of the Faithful, narrated it, the listeners would be compelled to attribute him to lying and sinfulness? Were it not that it is a matter of extreme difficulty which the weak listener is incapable of digesting, and a rugged path sharper than the sword and finer than a hair which anyone whosoever is unable to cross? Behold, it is the saying and the belief in divinity.

And indeed, what our master Zayn al-Abidin—His might was mighty—said, and which occurred in the books of the people of the Sunnah and the Shiites, would be sufficient on its own to prove The Esoteric (Al-Batin), and that what we are upon is the pure truth. Our master Zayn al-Abidin—His might was mighty—said:

Indeed, I conceal from my knowledge its jewels

So that the possessor of ignorance does not see the truth and become infatuated

And Abu Hasan had gone forward in this

To Al-Husayn, and he advised Al-Hasan before him

And many a jewel of knowledge, if I were to disclose it

It would surely be said to me: "You are among those who worship idols,"