And know that when God endowed the mind with the soul to produce children, not to obtain the pleasure of creation, He placed it in the natural land, which affected its mood, as the land changed what was planted in it to its natural nature. Keep your mind on the Almighty’s saying: It is watered with one water, and the earth is one, and the tastes, smells, and colors differ. If we say about honey It is sweet and delicious, so you see some mixtures that you feel pain in, but do not enjoy, and you find it bitter, as well as

smells and colors. We saw this difference due to perceptions, not to things, so we saw them as ratios that have no reality in their essence except in terms of their essence. Then it was said to him: Stop at the additions and ratios, and he stumbles. On the matter as it is, then it was said to him: O God, then know where you were called from, where you have been, why you were called, and who called you and what called you, so be according to what you have me