The pen then created the tablet and said to the pen, “Write.” The pen said, “What do I write?” God said to him, “Write, and I will dictate to you.” So the pen wrote on the tablet what dictates the truth to him, and He taught it in His creation, which He creates until the Day of Resurrection.

[ The moral marriage between the pen and the tablet ]

So there was a reasonable moral marriage between the pen and the tablet and a noticeable sensory effect. Hence, we worked with the numbered letters, and the effect that was deposited on the tablet was like the flowing water that occurs in the female’s womb and whatnot. From that writing appeared some of the meanings deposited in those criminal letters, like the souls of children deposited in their bodies, so understand, and God speaks the truth and He guides the path. And the truth has been placed in this tablet, the rational one, on the authority of God, what was revealed to Him by the One who glorifies Him with His praise, whose glorification is understood only by those whom God has informed of it and who has opened his hearing to what He mentions it just as he opened the hearing of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and those of his companions who were present to perceive the glorification of the pebbles in his pure and kind palm, may God bless him and grant him peace. Rather, we said, he opened his hearing since the pebbles had been there ever since God created him, praising God with ever-present praise, so it was a violation of the custom in auditory perception, not in it. Then he created it. It has two attributes: the attribute of knowledge and the attribute of action. Through the attribute of action, images of the world appear about Him just as the image of