The other group moved towards abandoning contemplation, because contemplation is involved in one of two matters, either in creatures or in God, and the highest degree of its involvement in creatures is to take it as evidence, and the signified is the opposite of evidence, so evidence and its meaning are never combined in the eyes of the observer. They saw abandonment of contemplation and preoccupation with remembrance, since they are both permissible, for if he died In the case of thinking about the verses, he would have died in something other than God, even if he was asking for them for God, but there is no witness for him except them, and if his wandering about God was to take it as evidence of creatures and beings, as some of them see it, then he was asking for something other than God, and it is bad manners with God, since he only intended to consider it to guide him to a ruling. And if the beings were based on it, then what he asked for would be his own, and if he thought th