[4]And on the authority of the Scholar, His glory is magnificent, that he said: The illuminating things are attached to the ropes of their essences, returning to their elements.

And some of the [scholars] ¹ were asked about the preserving power for every known thing, stationed over preservation, intellect, and the ignited remembrance arising from acumen and knowledge, so he said: Indeed, God the Exalted made the two ears, the two eyes, and the two nostrils as breathing passages and spacious layers that nothing of nutrients intermingles with, and He made them linked in the heart and celebrated in the brain, and He placed between them a pillar of extended light from the heart to the brain, and the heart and the brain [draw] ² from that light [by their power] ³ , and the light extends to all of them and illuminates them with a subtle, essential power appearing from the ancient, lofty power, and that power is connected to that from which it appeared, and attached to that from which it manifested, and were it not for what is in the heart of light,