Its owner is called Abd al-Shafi. God says on the authority of his friend Ibrahim, peace be upon him, that he said, “And if I am sick, he is the one who heals.” The healer is the remover of diseases and the giver of purposes. Diseases only appear in their apparent form because of what the purposes require. If the purpose were to disappear, the demand would disappear, so the disease would disappear. It is the presence of healing that grants the possessors of purposes their purposes. It is necessary for the purpose, for there is a barrier between the one who fulfills the purpose and what is attached to it, then it is the disease. If he obtains what is attached to it, then it is the cure for him from that illness, and the one who achieves it is the healer. We have often seen someone who seeks pain, that is, painful things, in order to relieve them of pain that, to him, is greater than it and more severe, so that what is it is made easy for him. Other than that, those pains that are r