Then know that the answer is of two types: the answer of compliance, which is the response of creation to what the truth has called him to, and the answer of gratitude, which is the response of the truth to what the creation has called him to. So the response of creation is reasonable, and the answer of the truth is transmitted, because God Almighty told it about Himself. As for describing Him as closeness in answering, He is described as being closer to man. From his jugular vein, his closeness to his servant is likened to a person’s closeness to himself if he calls himself to something that he does and does it. There is a time between supplication and the answer, which is hearing. Rather, the time of supplication is the time of answering. So the closeness of the truth to answering His servant is the closeness of the servant to answering himself when he calls upon it, then what he calls it to is similar to the situation. Whatever the servant calls upon his Lord to do in a specifi