The husband is hungry out of necessity, not by choice, and he is patient with marriage as well due to lack of length. The one who expresses marriage knows what motivates him to seek it and become passionate about it, for neither he nor others who know his servitude will be fulfilled more than what is achieved for him in marriage, whether in food, drink, or clothing, in order to avoid harm. He does not desire marriage for the sake of offspring, but rather for the sake of desire, and bringing procreation to his heart is a lawful matter, and procreation in that is a natural matter in order to preserve the survival of the species in this abode. So the marriage of the person of this position is like the marriage of the people of Paradise simply for the sake of desire, since it is the greatest manifestation that is hidden from the precious, except for those whom God has chosen for it among His servants. Accordingly, animals are married simply for the sake of lust, but many of those who