My God, so it was in the middle and last third of the month, and it was not in the first third, for the first is you and it is necessary, so priority is yours in knowing your Lord, and you and he do not meet, just as the evidence and the signified do not meet. So whoever knows himself knows his Lord, then he precedes you, then you are the guide, so priority is yours in theoretical and exploratory knowledge. Knowing revelation does not come except after practice and struggle, so you must advance in insight and discovery, just as his knowledge of you is from his knowledge of it. If he is not described as knowing himself what he taught you, then consider God’s knowledge of you from where it is, for it is a very precise issue that we mentioned in our book titled “Uqla al-Mustafuz.” And in this book