And as for the death by which he was threatened: then it is a symbol for the dire consequences resulting from violating the divine law settling in the conscience of every human.

And the deceiving serpent: it is a symbol for the vile trials sliding like the snake in the heart of man, and the hiding of Adam and Eve among the trees in paradise from before the face of the Lord is a symbol for the ignominy that overcomes man after his committing the disobedience.

And philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom is the knowledge, and the revelation is of three ranks: the first of them the dreams, and the middle of them the inspiration, and the highest of them the intimate discourse, and it is the most magnificent of them and the most noble of them, and each of these three ranks does not exit from the verdict of the intellect and the circle of confirmation.

And according to the Sufis is the continuity of manifestation from the known which their doctrine believed and upon which its philosophical rules were built, and this doctrine is Indian in origin.