Know, may God help you, when companionship sought what was appropriate, and He said: There is nothing like Him, and the evidence of reason decrees that He has sovereignty, and the world is servants, so service, not companionship. Rather, companionship was abstained from the one party and correct from the other party, for what we mention. The truth is not a companion to any of the created beings except through companionship. What the Lawgiver wanted in

His saying, “You are the companion in travel, ”

with that meaning, just as we have taken him as an agent in what is his property, and because he is the agent of what he wants, as he said, he cannot be the agent of what you want unless your will agrees with his will, and what You will, unless God wills that you will, in that He willed an action, not in the sense that you will, and a companion is one who leaves his will to the will of his companion, and this, in the face of truth, is impossible. The Lord will not be ac