Know, may God help you, O intimate friend, that when God Almighty created creation, He destined them for stations that they would not exceed, so He created angels as angels when He created them, and He created messengers as messengers, and prophets as prophets, and saints as guardians, and believers as believers, and hypocrites and disbelievers as disbelievers. All of that is distinct with Him, Glory be to Him, a known helper, and He does not add to them, nor subtract from them, nor subtract from them. He replaces one person with another, so no created being has any gain, nor do you work to achieve a position for which he was not created. Rather, emptiness has occurred from that, and that is the decree of the Mighty, the All- Knowing .

The stations of every existing thing and every class do not exceed them, and no one runs other than its course. God Almighty said regarding the planets, “Each.” They swim in an orbit, and so every existent has a path of his own that no one e