And know that God’s preservation of the world is only to preserve praise for it in the language of newly-invented things, by keeping it free from its lack, and the preservation was not to take care of it or to take care of it, but rather to be its manifestation and to reveal the provisions of His names. Likewise, He created man in His image, and He said, “And that man has nothing but what he strives for,” so He made him not strive. Except for himself, and that is why he associated his striving with reward, so that he strives for himself in contrast to the one who has no reward from the world above and below, and he is not after the messengers, and their rank in knowledge of God is the rank of those who are brought up and alerted. However, there is not a single messenger among them except that it was said to him: Tell your nation, “What do I ask you for?” meaning, according to the reward I have reached you. My reward is only upon God, for He is the one who used it and sent it, so t