In Book Five, Section 11 of the Masnavi, Rumi introduces the concept that the highly advanced spiritual wayfarer (salik) or gnostic ('arif) transcends the need for outward actions or words to testify to their inner state. While outward deeds (such as prayer and fasting) are necessary witnesses of faith for average believers, the gnostic's inner light (nur) is so intense that it manifests itself directly from their inner secret (sirr) to creation, acting as its own proof. Rumi illustrates this with the metaphor of the rising sun: when the sun climbs high, it requires no external signs, such as a rooster's crow or a muezzin's call, to announce its presence. Thus, the spiritual authority and purity of the perfect gnostic are entirely self-evident, rendering external testimonies superfluous.