As for the one who dislikes it for a young man, he considers it to be the beginner on the path. He permits it for the old man and considers it to be the end, for the one who has finished does not ask to return from watching to speech, so he abandons watching and accepts the nonsense, since the nonsense is not valid except with the veil, as he said, and it is not for a human being that God should speak to him except through revelation or from behind a veil. And the finished one knows that, but does not do it. As for the beginner, who is the youth, he has no experience with the stations, for he is in the station of conduct, and he knows nothing of them except what he has tasted. The end is only in watching, and he hears about it from the great ones, so he imagines that he does not lose watching with speech. And the beginner is in an ideal viewing, so he is told, “The matter is not as you claim.” If he spoke to you, he did not bear witness to you, and if he made you bear witness, he