The King said: "The place of your indication has glimmered for me, and your intent in what you intended has become clear to me, and the allusion by which you indicated."

My Master said to him: "If you would love to know my intent in my indication and to clarify my allusions, then contemplate my saying with the ears of your heart, and ponder my speech with your understanding and your core. And know that every knower, scholar, and worshipper is not capable of surpassing the knowledge of the manifest (al-zahir) which manifested the power, and brought the evident precision, the signs, the miracles, and the clear proofs."

The King said: "I would love that you clarify for me in this meaning clear proofs from the reports transmitted from the truthful ones (al-Sadiqin), traced back to our pure Masters, of that which cannot be repelled by the arguments of the falsifiers."

My Master said to him: "We have been narrated in this meaning that which indicates the truth of what I have said:

[295] From al-Mufaddal bin Umar - from him is peace - he said: I was present with our Master Ja'far bin Muhammad al-Sadiq - Exalted is His Might - and he was asked about that manifestation and the heard speech, so he said: