And guide them to the watering-places of the flowing water of life, and draw them near with the offering of the sincere, and bring them out from the darkness of doubts and suspicions into the light of demonstrations and signs. And recite the sessions of wisdom that come out to you in the presence before the believing men and believing women, and the responding men and responding women. And safeguard the secrets of wisdom except from their worthy people, and do not bestow them except upon those who deserve them.”
And there came in the book [The Imam al-Sadiq and the Inspirer of Chemistry] by the author Dr. Muhammad Yahya al-Hashimi—who is a Sunni graduate of a German university in physics and chemistry—what is exactly his text: “Indeed, the school of thought of interpretations is not an Ismaili school of thought only; rather, we find that even with the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd, who knows nothing about Ismailism as it appears, and he held an inquiry in his famous book [Fasl al-Maqal fima bayna al-Shari'ah wa al-Hikmah min al-Ittisal] in which he spoke at length about interpretation, mentioning that the Sharia has an outward and an inward.




