if he did not divulge it except to susa and so did susa and his successor until now then how did it reach these ignorant common people until they spoke about it and the books were filled with its story and the tongues circulated it? it must be said that one of the caliphs disobeyed and divulged the secret to those who were not worthy of it so it spread and they believed that they were infallible and that disobedience was inconceivable for them. if it is said that susa does not mention it except with those who made a covenant with him about it we say what prevented the messenger from making a covenant? and he mentions it if it is permissible to disclose it with the covenant. if it is said that perhaps he made a covenant and mentioned it but did not transmit it because of the covenant that he took from the one to whom he disclosed it we say that this has not spread among you and your imams do not reveal this except with the one who took the covenant from him. and what is it that protected the covenant of those without the covenant of these? then it is said that if it is permissible to disclose this secret with the covenant then the covenant is conceivable to be broken. so is it conceivable that he would disclose it to someone whom the infallible imam knows will not break it or is it sufficient that he thinks it with his intuition? and his effort and his evidence with the signs so if you say that it is not permissible except to the one who knows the infallible imam that he does not contradict it with a definition from god then how did these secrets spread to all of creation and did not spread except from those who heard? so either the one who conveyed was deficient in the covenant or he did not make a covenant at all and in one of them is the attribution of the infallible to ignorance and in
فإن لم يفشه إلا إلى سوسه وكذا سوس سوسه وخليفة خليفته إلى الآن فكيف انتهى إلى هؤلاء الجهال من العوام حتى تناطقوا به وشحنت التصانيف بحكايته وتداولته الألسنة فلا بد أن يقال إن واحدا من الخلفاء عصى وأفشى السر إلى غير أهله فانتشر وعندهم أنهم معصومون لا يتصور عليهم العصيان فإن قيل السوس لا يذكره إلا مع من تعاهده عليه قلنا وما الذي منع الرسول من أن يعاهد ويذكره إن كان يجوز إفشاؤه مع العهد فإن قيل لعله عاهد وذكر ولكن لم ينقل لأجل العهد الذي أخذ ممن أفشى إليه قلنا ولم انتشر ذلك فيكم وأئمتكم لا يظهرون ذلك إلا مع من أخذ العهد عليه وما الذي عصم عهد أولئك دون عهد هؤلاء ثم يقال إذا جاز إفشاء هذا السر بالعهد فالعهد يتصور نقضه فهل يتصور أن يفشيه إلى من يعلم الإمام المعصوم أنه لا ينقضه أو يكفى أن يظنه بفراسته واجتهاده واستدلاله بالأمارات فإن قلتم لا يجوز إلا إلى من علم الإمام المعصوم أنه لا ينقضه بتعريف من جهة الله فكيف انتشرت هذه الأسرار الى كافة الخلق ولم تنتشر الا ممن سمع فإما ان يكون المبلغ ناقصا للعهد او لم يعاهدأصلاوفي احدهما نسبة المعصوم الى الجهل وفي