From istiwa, descent, kindness, and gentleness in speech, anger, and contentment, all of which are attributes of a created being. If he had not described himself with our attributes, we would not have known him, and if he had not removed himself from our attributes, we would not have known him. He is what is known in both cases and described with both attributes. This is why He created two pairs of everything so that one of the pairs would have height, which is the male. And for one of the lower pairs, which is the female, so that from between them, if they come together, the existence of the entities of that type appears, and He made this a type in each type, to teach us that the matter in our existence is in this way, so we are between it and the rationality of nature from which He created natural bodies and created from the ratio of His directing upon them the governing spirits and everything other than God. It must be a combination of a rider and a vehicle, so that it is corre