As for the great general circle, which is absolute prophecy, whoever is given it in terms of its generality, no one knows what he has and what his Lord has bestowed upon him, and he also does not know the value of that because he is not faced with an opposite in it, so he is distinguished from it. As for the one who is given of it out of mercy for him and assumes the truth with a kind of Kindness was taught to him, so he recognized him through his knowledge, then he recognized him from his absence as he wished for him to know him, like Khidr in which he said, “We gave him mercy from Us,” that is, We had mercy on him, so We gave him this knowledge with which he appeared, and if God Almighty wanted to give him mercy from Him, He placed it in him so that he would have mercy on himself and His servants with it, so it would be a mercy against the boy. A barrier between him and what he would have earned if he had lived through sins, since he was naturally an infidel. As for his mercy to