Hatl), the dew (Al-Nada), the seas, the rivers, the springs, and other names that indicate the "praised water" are struck parables that point to inward meanings, according to the saying of the Exalted: {And Allah strikes parables for the people so that they may remember} (Ibrahim 25).

The same applies to the increase of this water, its decrease, its moderation in strength or weakness, its equilibrium, its beginning and end, its gathering and dispersion, its existence and non-existence, its manifestation and hiddenness, its small or large quantity, and its middle state. This also includes its sources—such as rains, seas, rivers, wells, ponds, springs, and all inanimate, animal, and plant bodies—as well as its conceptual transformations in turbidity and purity.

It also includes its colors, such as red, green, yellow, black, and white dyes, and its tastes, such as sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and pungent. Furthermore, its types of pleasant and offensive smells through its mixing with such scents; its tactile qualities like coldness, heat, and moderation; its inanimate forms like snow, hail, and ice; and its flow patterns in terms of increase, decrease, perfection, abundance, scarcity, movement, stillness, foam, waves, and the like... and its audible types such as roaring, echoing, murmuring, and its stillness or agitation and its gathering, dispersion, moderation, and other transformations, each of which indicates a meaning different from the other. This includes the constant transformation of each of these aforementioned types into another, and