and now he is fortified with the cloak of concealment guarding himself from destruction in order to protect the secret from being disclosed until its time comes and it is extinguished before falsehood and its time. so what is the answer of these batiniyyah about the doctrine of the imamiyyah? and what prevents the possibility of that? for they helped them in all their premises except for this premise. and that is because they witnessed the disorder of the state of the one whom these people labeled as infallible and they realized the reasons that contradict piety and protection. so they were ashamed to claim infallibility for the one whose conditions they saw were the opposite of it. so they claimed that the infallible one is hidden and we are waiting for his appearance in his time.
وإنما هو الآن متحصن بجلباب الخفاء حارس نفسه عن الهلاك لصيانة السر عن الإفشاء الى ان يحضر أوانه وينقرض امام الباطل وزمانه فما جواب هؤلاء الباطنية عن مذهب الإمامية وما الذي يمنع احتمال ذلك فانهم ساعدوهم على جميع مقدماتهم الا على هذه المقدمة وذلك لما شاهدوا من اختلال حال من وسمه هؤلاء بالعصمة وتحققوا من الاسباب المناقضة للورع والصيانة فاستحيوا من دعوى العصمة لمن يشاهدون من احواله نقيضها فزعموا ان المعصوم مختف وانا ننتظر ظهوره في اوانه