and whatever is in the earth and the heavens prostrated to you. We are in the inward of the cosmos like the fetus, and the legal obligations (al-takalif al-shar'iyyah) complete the spiritual form; and for this, the five prayers were made according to the number of the five senses. And all the scenes in the world of the cosmos are analogies for meanings in the world of the intellect, and the reality is not passing away nor perishing by the passing away of the analogy. And the intellect only forms its essence in the primary matter, then it looks by its essence at the meanings of its essence, so it takes pleasure in a thing outside of it with a wondrous, eternal pleasure; and the active, rational soul is annihilated by the intellect here, and this is the greatest interpreter.

A Christian philosopher: Know, O you who stand upon this book of mine, that the human is the summation of the wisdom of Allah, and he is a composite of a dusty body, dark of nature, and a spiritual, luminous, pure spirit. And they are two substances contrasting in attributes, opposing in states, participating in the accidental actions and the additional attributes. So for the sake of his earthly body, he desires eternalization here, and for the sake of his luminous spirit,