It is part of prayer for one who understands what is meant by prayer, and just as his eye does not detract from the sensible objects that his eye sees in his qiblah, which appear to his sight with their existence and their essence of the worlds and their movements, this does not take him away from being a prayer without disagreement, and it is disliked for the praying person to close his eyes in his prayer, so also what It appears to the eye of his insight and his heart through the likes of thoughts and images of the things that are presented to him in his interior, and they are from God, and the eye of his insight is open like the eye of his sense. For every represented image, the truth in it is revealed to him in his interior just as it was revealed to him in the tangible things on the outside, so he must perceive it with the eye of his insight and his heart just as he perceived the images. And just as that did not take him away from being a praying person according to what was