Al-Shadi said: Four groups of scholars gathered in the Dome of Arin below the equator, one from the West, the second from the East, the third from the Levant, and the fourth from Yemen. They traded in sciences and the difference between names and drawings, and each one of them said to his owner: There is no good in knowledge that does not give its owner eternal happiness and does not sanctify its bearer without influence. In the long run, let us search in these sciences that are in our hands for the knowledge that is the most precious of what is sought, the best of what is acquired, the best of what is saved, and the greatest of which one can be proud. So the Moroccan said, from this knowledge, I have knowledge of the standing carrier, and the Levantine said, I have knowledge of the necessary predicate carrier, and the Shami said, of this knowledge, I have the knowledge of creativity. And composition, and Al-Yamani said, “I have of this knowledge the knowledge of summation and arr