And know that the lover’s love does not absorb him completely unless his true beloved, the Almighty, or someone of his kind, whether a slave girl or a boy. As for what is other than those I mentioned, his love for them does not absorb him. Rather, we said that because a person does not encounter with his entire self except the one who is in his image if he loves him. There is no part in it except that there is something similar to it, so there is nothing left in it that becomes one whole, so that its exterior wanders in its exterior and its interior in its interior. Do you not see that the truth may be called the apparent and the hidden, so a person is absorbed in love for the truth and its forms, and that is not in anything other than the species of the world, for if he loves a form of the world Rather, he receives it with the appropriate part, and what remains of his self remains active in its work. As for the absorption of his love, if he loves God, it is due to his being in Hi