Speech is an influential, psychological, merciful quality derived from speech, which is wounding. That is why we said, “impacting,” just as speech affects the body of a wounded person. The first speech that splits the hearing of possible things is the word “Be,” and the world did not appear except through the attribute of speech, which is the direction of the soul of the Most Merciful toward one of the entities, and the personality of that soul opens up in that soul. What is intended is expressed in speech, and what is formed in it is expressed in the breath, just as the breath ends in the breather who wants to find the eye of a letter, and the named breath produces a sound. In any place where the duration of its purpose has ended, the essence of the intended letter appears at that time, if the eye of the letter in particular is the intended one, then the ha appears, for example, to the waw and whatever is between them. The exits of the letters, and these are called the ascents of