As for fasting for two months in its expiation, the month is an expression among the Muhammadans about fulfilling the movement of the moon in the preordained stations, and that is the movement of the soul in the divine stations. One month he walks in it by himself to confirm the lordship of his Creator over him with himself, and the other month he walks in it with his Lord, for it is his foot with which he strives out of the truth. All his powers and limbs, for with his powers he cut off these stations, and the truth is the same as his powers, so he cut them off with his Lord, not with himself .