And for him also:
For you are a book, in you is everything inscribed
Lo, erase from you the whole if you wished to be read.
And there is not there except you, so understand my saying For your outward is the world and your inward is the other.
Kitab Shujun al-Masjun: And verily behind the boundary of articulation is what is finer than the threads of the spider. The soul is like the clear glass, and Allah the Exalted has owned it by choice, power, and volition, by which it is enabled to
inclination toward a thing and its opposite, and He, Glory be to Him, extends to it what it wills due to the saying of the Exalted: {To all—these and those—We extend} 1 , and the reward and the punishment only fall upon its essence from the direction of its attributes.
And the soul is an angel in potentiality, it is possible that it becomes an angel in actuality, and a demon in potentiality, it is possible that it becomes a demon in actuality, and its affair is unto you and its rein is in your hand, for if you obeyed it, it disobeyed you, and if you angered it, it obeyed you.