Know, may God help us and you with a spirit from Him, that when God Almighty enabled us to use this dhikr in Seville in the country of Andalusia in the year five hundred and eighty-six, we stayed in it for three days, and we saw a blessing in it in those days. We were in it as three, myself and Abdullah al-Nazhouni, an honorable judge, and he was a good servant, an officer, a jurist, and a person. Thirdly, from the people of the country, he made the reason for the answer hearing, not the one who said he heard but he did not hear, as God Almighty said, forbidding us to be like these people, so He said, “And do not be like those who said, ‘We hear,’ but they did not hear.” Hearing in this remembrance is the eye of the mind, as the ear perceives it, and it hears it from what the translator brought about. God Almighty is the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, who does not speak from his own whims. So if he knows what he hears, it is according to what he knows, for knowl