It is still in his hands, and when he commands it, this lover sees that he has been grateful to him for using it and commanding it, and that this is part of his care for it, and if he loses seeing it and observing it in what occupied him with it, then he is in bliss and pleasure because he is acting according to the decrees of his master and with his permission. If the lover is God, then the beloved’s command is his. His supplication and his desire for what means to him and what he loves, then he hates things, so he supplicates him with the quality of prohibition, such as his saying, “Let not our hearts deviate, and do not burden us with insistence, and do not burden us with what we cannot bear.” This is a question with the quality of prohibition, for the command and prohibition came from him for his master, and the truth’s answer is this servant insofar as he loves this servant, such as obedience. The slave obeys his master’s orders and refrains from disobeying him.