As for silence, it means not speaking to any creature of the beasts and insects that accompanied him during his travel or in his place of isolation, and if one of the jinn or the highest assembly appears to him, he closes his eyes to them and does not occupy himself with talking to them, and if they speak to him, if the answer is imposed on him, he will respond in proportion to the fulfillment of the obligation. Without more, and if it is not imposed on him, he should remain silent about them and be busy with himself. If they saw him in this state, they would avoid him and not confront him and hide from him, for they knew that whoever is distracted by God from being occupied with Him, God will punish him more severely, and as for his silence in himself from talking to himself, he does not talk to himself about anything. Of what he hopes to gain from God in what he has been interrupted, it is a waste of time in what is not achieved, for it is one of wishful thinking. If he accustom