Among their secrets is also the knowledge of nature, its composition and analysis, and the benefits of drugs. This is known from them in a revelation that our Sheikh Abu Abdullah Al-Ghazal, who was in Al-Marriah, may God have mercy on him, was in the state of his departure from the council of his sheikh, Abu Al-Abbas Ibn Al-Arif. Ibn Al-Arif was the literary scholar of his time, so he was in the woods in the way of Samad alive when he saw the weeds of that. The whole meadow spoke to him with its benefits, so the tree or the star said to him, “Take me, for I will benefit such-and-such and protect against harm to such-and-such,” until he was astonished and remained bewildered by the call of each tree to endear him and draw near to him. So he returned to the sheikh and informed him of that. So the sheikh said to him, “Why did you serve us? Where was the harmful and beneficial from you when the trees said to you?” It is beneficial and harmful, so he said, “Sir, repentance.” The Sheikh