Know that abandoning abandonment is abstinence, and asceticism is abandonment, and abandoning asceticism is abandoning abstinence, for it is the same as returning you to what you abstained from, because true knowledge returns you to it, and the situation seeks it, so it has no truth in the interior of the matter, but it has some ruling on the surface, so this amount of it is valid. What remains is abstinence, which is constipation. Abandoning asceticism out of desire for what is being held or not out of desire, so people’s conditions differ regarding it .