In this section of Kashf al-Mahjub, Hujwiri reports Ja'far al-Sadiq's saying — man 'arafa Allah a'rada 'amma siwahu (whoever knows God turns away from all other than Him). The teaching frames gnosis (ma'rifa) as inseparable from ignorance (nukra) of everything besides God: to truly know Him is to be ignorant of all else, and to attend to anything else is ignorance of Him. Consequently the gnostic (arif) is cut off from secondary causes (asbab) and from created things, and is instead joined to the Truth (Haqq). This concept isolates the specific doctrinal point of the excerpt so learners can grasp the ma'rifa–nukra relationship apart from the biographical framing.