Among these is the inner clothing, food, and the outer clothing, which is what wards off harm. He said: The created being is bound by harm due to its poverty, and it is in itself created to ward off pain from itself. Hunger is pain that it ward off with food and thirst, did it not ward off with drinking, heat, and cold, did it ward off with clothing, and the rest of the pains it wards off with the medicines that God has made to ward off pain, and everything else. The motive is either adornment or following a desire that has pain in the soul, so it is not relieved except by eating the desired thing, and that is permissible for the soul in everything that it desires, so there is a time that repels the pain when it feels it and a time that corrects it before it descends. In general, the soul does not use anything of itself except to ward off pain, and this is the difference between truth and creation. It was not the creation of the truth for its own sake. His rule in creating would b