how can it be permissible to conceal the religion of allah when the most high said {you must make it clear to the people and do not conceal it} to be aware that it is not permissible to conceal the religion even if they claim that it must be concealed. we say what the messenger may allah bless him and grant him peace made it obligatory to conceal from the secret of the religion how can it be permissible for you to disclose it when the crime of concealing a secret by disclosing it to someone who knows about it is one of the greatest crimes. if the owner of the law had not known a great secret and a comprehensive interest in concealing these secrets he would not have concealed them nor would he have repeated these apparent matters to the ears of creation nor would the description of paradise have been repeated in the words of the quran. and the fire with clear words with his knowledge that people understand from it something other than the inner meaning which is the truth and they believe these outward appearances which have no reality. so if you attribute it to ignorance of what people understood from it then it is an attribution to ignorance in the meaning of the speech since the prophet may god bless him and grant him peace knew with certainty that people do not understand from his words and an extended shade and poured water and abundant fruit except what is understood from it in the language. so it is with all the other words. then with his knowledge of that he would emphasize it to them by repeating and swearing and he did not disclose to them the hidden matter that you mentioned because he knew that it was the hidden secret of allah. so why did you disclose this secret and tear this veil? is this not a departure from the religion and opposition to the owner of the law and the destruction of all that he established if we accept for you for the sake of argument that what you mentioned of the hidden matter is true with allah and there is no way out for them from this. if it is said that this is a secret that it is not permissible to disclose it to the common people then for this reason the messenger of allah may allah bless him and grant him peace did not disclose it. but the right of the prophet is to disclose it to his scum which is and his will and his successor after him and he disclosed it to ali and no one else. we said and ali did he disclose it to anyone other than his successor and his successor or not?
وكيف إستجاز كتمان دين الله وقد قال تعالى {لتبيننه للناس ولا تكتمونه} تنبها على أن الدين لا يحل كتمانه وإن زعموا أنه يجب إخفاؤه فنقول ما أوجب الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم إخفاؤهمن سر الدين كيف حل لكم إفشاؤه والجناية في السر بالإفشاء ممن اطلع عليه من أعظم الجنايات فلولا أن صاحب الشرع عرف سرا عظيما ومصلحة كلية في إخفاء هذه الأسرار لما أخفاها ولما كرر هذه الظواهر على أسماع الخلق ولما تكررت في كلمات القرآن صفة الجنة والنار بألفاظ صريحة مع علمه بأن الناس يفهمون منه خلاف الباطن الذي هو حق ويعتقدون هذه الظواهر التي لا حقيقة لها فإن نسبتموه إلى الجهل بما فهمه الخلق منه فهو نسبة إلى الجهل بمعنى الكلام إذ كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يعلم قطعا أن الخلق ليس يفهمون من قوله وظل ممدود وماء مسكوب وفاكهة كثيرة إلا المفهوم منه في اللغة فكذا سائر الألفاظ ثم مع علمه بذلك كان يؤكده عليهم بالتكرير والقسم ولم يفش إليهم الباطن الذي ذكرتموه لعلمه بأنه سر الله المكتوم فلم أفشيتم هذا السر وخرقتم هذا الحجاب وهل هذا إلا خروج عن الدين ومخالفة لصاحب الشرع وهدم لجميع ما أسسه إن سلم لكم جدلا أن ما ذكرتموه من الباطن حق عند الله وهذا لا مخرج لهم عنه فإن قيل هذا سر لا يجوز إفشاؤه إلى عوام الخلق فلهذا لم يفشه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ولكن حق النبي أن يفشيه إلى سوسه الذي هو وصية وخليفته من بعده وقد أفشاه إلى علي دون غيره قلنا وعلي هل أفشاه إلى غير سوسه وخليفته أم لا