His purposes, as He said, He created man, taught him explanation, and taught him the state and how to be in it, and if he had left it with himself, he would have returned to the nothingness from which he emerged, so he gave him existence and its requisites, and God Almighty appeared in it Himself, by what He revealed of the actions through it, and He made for the servant first a known existentialist and the last known in existence, reasonable in estimation and apparent. What is apparent from him is for him, and hidden from him is what is hidden from him. Then when he limited him to these limits, he stripped him of them and said to him, “You are not he, but rather he is the first and the last, the apparent and the hidden.” So the servant remained in his state of existence as he was able, as long as he was able to depart from it, and it is not right for him to depart, and he added actions to it in order to obtain reassurance that the claim is not valid in it. For he said, “And to Hi