Know, may God support you with a spirit from Him, that when God created the rational soul that governs this structure called man, He imposed on him in this mood specific to this worldly upbringing three things that He made among the requirements of his upbringing: the vegetative soul, the lustful soul, and the angry soul. As for the vegetative and angry soul, they disappear in the upbringing of the people of happiness in Paradise, and nothing remains in that upbringing except the appetitive soul, for it is necessary for the two upbringings, and with it pleasure is given to the people of bliss. As for the vegetative soul, it is the one that seeks nourishment to make up for what is lacking in it, and with it the body grows, and it always ceases to be nourished. Either from outside it is brought to it, which is expressed by eating, or from where God wills. It is not specified, and it has four functions: the attractor, the catcher, the digester, and the pusher. As for the attractor, h