And God, Glory be to Him, did not do all of this except to teach creation to be polite to Him, since He knew that among God’s people there are those who have extravagances so that they should behave themselves, so do not be extravagant, for extravagance is a defect in man because he attaches himself in it to the divine rank and deviates from his true nature, so extravagance attaches him to ignorance of God and himself, and he has fallen from among the great ones, and I will not name them. Because it is an attribute of deficiency, and as for the rabble of people, we have no words with them, for they are a rabble in view of these masters, and if something like this happens to the masters, then our blame falls upon them. The lowest may also be overshadowed by the highest, like the overstepping of the ranks of the prophets, and they are greater in the eyes of God in culpability than their overstepping of God, for the rank of God is greater. They lie in the situation and in the eyes of