Now He gives him that position by obtaining in him a deity that God inspires him with and praises him for, and so on, every position and rank in the world, this world and the hereafter, to infinite amounts, has a special praise in each of them, so if he glorifies Him, that praise inherits from him another knowledge that he did not have from the knowledge of the divine ear. From which God created the bird in the hand of Jesus, and from it Jesus breathed into it and it became a bird, and from it He healed the blind and the lepers, and brought the dead to life, and it is an honorable knowledge that was verified by Abu Yazid al-Bistami and Dhul-Nun al-Misri. As for Abu Yazid, he killed an ant unintentionally, and when he learned of it, he breathed into it and it rose alive, God willing. As for Dhul-Nun, it came to him. The old woman whose child was taken by the crocodile and carried with him in the Nile, so he called for the crocodile and threw him alive from its stomach, just as the