Thus, it is obligatory upon the successor in knowledge to ascend to the noblest demands which acquire Otherworldly Happiness and Salvation through knowing them."
Then he said:
"By the Psychic (Nafsani), the Natural (Tabi'i) is known. Just as by the Intellect, the Soul is known.
As for the Intellect, it prevented Nature from roaming within it, let alone encompassing it."1
Footnotes
1The Psychic (Nafsani): The Substance separate from matter and sensory form.The Natural (Tabi'i): The Accidental Body susceptible to the three dimensions.Therefore: By means of the Substance, the attributes of the Accident are known.He erred who thought that Man is only the sensory body. The Soul is a living, active, perceiving Substance that undertakes the care and governance of the body's affairs.Therefore, necessarily, we cannot know the attributes of Man except through the Soul. The Soul is the mother of the body, and through the mother, the attribute of the child is known.By the Intellect, the Soul is known: Both are Substances, and the Higher Substance is that by which we know the attributes of the Lower Substance.[Higher Face / Esoteric Interpretation]"By the Psychic, the Natural is known": Meaning, by the Power, the attributes of the Form are known."By the Intellect, the Soul is known": Meaning, by the Light, the attributes of the Radiance are known.The Intellect is not encompassed by Material Nature, nor does it penetrate its intellection. It perceives intelligible things from their causes and reasons without material (natural) mediation. As for the Soul, it does not perceive the intelligible forms of the Natural except through the mediation of its sensory forms."The Cause of the Beginning and the End": An indication of the Intelligible Emanating Motion issuing from the Initiator (Mubdi'), with the completion and perfection of the Desired.The Quiddity of that Thing from whose origin things were: Is the Abstract Luminous Quiddity, and it is the very Existence of the Deity who desired Innovation (Ibda') and Formation (Takwin).The Quiddity indicated in the text: Is what obtains in the Intellect of that thing itself, without its external accidents. Hierarchy of Creation: By the Will of Allah, the Innovator: Was the Intellect (The Light), which is the Veil. And by the Will of the Intellect (authorized to create the Part and the Whole): Was the Simple Soul, which is truly the Gate, the possessor of the Luminous Universe.And from it [The Soul], the other Universes were affected (The Universes of the Luminous Ranks, possessors of singular, non-compound natures).And from the Universes of the High Luminous Ranks, the Earthly Universes were affected (composed of the four natures: Water, Air, Fire, and Earth).