Know that inhaling is inwardly, since the nose is, according to Arab custom, the place of honor and pride, and that is why the Arabs say in their supplication, “God forced his nose,” and this agreed despite his nose and the dust of his nose. That is, God reduced you from your pride and your honor to a place of humility and smallness, so he was called dust, for the earth was called by God. Humiliation based on exaggeration, for the humiliated are humiliated by the humiliation of the humiliated, and the slaves are humiliated as they tread the ground by walking on its shoulders, so this is why he called it the structure of exaggeration.