And for further clarification, I cite some of the sayings of certain other philosophers and scholars regarding the necessity of safeguarding jewels and concealing secrets from other than their worthy people. There came

in the book [Adwa' ala Maslak al-Tawhid al-Durziyyah] [Lights on the Druze Way of Monotheism] by Dr. Sami Nasib Makarem, what is exactly his text, or as it ran upon the tongues of the Sufis and in their custom:

He with whom they shared a secret, and he manifested all that they concealed

And did not maintain the connection, was a deceiver

And he who does not safeguard the secret of his master and his lord

They will not trust him with secrets as long as he lives

And they punished him for what he committed of overstepping

And they substituted, in place of intimacy, estrangement

And to Ibn 'Arabi, regarding the very same meaning:

So understand—may I be your ransom—the secret of Allah within you