And Muslim men would surely have deemed my blood permissible

Seeing the ugliest of what they commit as good.

If only I knew, what thing is more indicative than this speech that there is that which is named The Esoteric (Al-Batin) , and that the Shu'aybi religion is the true religion and the Khusaybi school of thought is the correct school of thought? Our master Zayn al-Abidin—His might was mighty—says in the first verse, emphasizing his insistence on concealing the jewel of his divinely inspired knowledge, lest the ignorant, foolish person encounters it and falls into the abyss of bewilderment and infatuation, since his diminished intellect cannot digest this difficult, hidden matter, nor can his weary sight bear the flashes of that captivating, manifest light.