So I gave you permission, and when you walked, I was afraid that the prince would shame you by not coming to you, so I stripped myself of this temple of mine and entered the temple of that prince and sat in his place. When I came, I honored you and did with you what I saw, then I returned to this temple of mine, and I have no need for this medicine or what I use. This is a person who has appeared. In the form of someone other than Him, then what about the people of that land?

[ The soil of the land of truth and its fruits ]

Some knowledgeable people said to me: When I entered this land, I saw in it a land all of fragrant musk. If one of us in this world smelled it [Page 128 of the Cairo edition] he would perish because of the strength of its scent that extends as long as God wills it to extend and enter into this land a land of soft red gold in which trees are all gold and their fruit is gold, so he takes the apple or other fruit and eats it and finds the pleasure and goodness of its taste. Its scent and grace are such that no descriptor can describe it, and the fruit of Paradise falls short of it. So how about the fruit of this world? The body, shape, and image are gold, and the image and shape are like the image and shape of the fruit with us, and they differ in taste and in the fruit, in terms of the exquisite pattern and beautiful adornment, which no soul can imagine. It is more likely that an eye will witness it and see the size of its fruit, such that if you place the fruit between... The sky and the earth would have blocked the people of the earth from seeing the sky, and if it were placed on the earth, it would be many times greater than it, and if the one who wants to eat it catches it with this usual hand