Here we consider whether that intention detracts from the virtue of seeking knowledge, or does seeking knowledge remain based on its virtue, giving the reality of his happiness in the afterlife, and the punishment is based on the mere intention in that, and this is what we rely on in the chapter on achieving the divine balance. Whoever says that the entire universe is a suspicion, and we say that is not the same. The listener may imagine it, but the merciful image has led us to this saying, and something like that should not be hesitant about it, nor should one avoid it, for no one knows of it except you. If it turns away from you, then you have ignorant of your self. And whoever created you, then

He said, “Whoever knows himself knows his Lord.”

Piety in this doubt is impossible. Rather, it should be dealt with insofar as it is a doubt, and that is its place that resolves it, for it will never resolve either party, and this is a sea in which most of the intellect