Know, may God help you, that it is correct to give the fallacy in its place its due, for it has a place in the Book of God, which is His saying about the actions of the infidels: “It is like a mirage in a valley, which the thirsty person thinks is water.” And the truth is that he is the one who gave him in the eye of this seer the image of water, and it is not the water that this thirsty person seeks, so it appeared to him. In the eyes of his need, even when he came to it, he did not find it anything, so he denied, and what he said, he did not find water, for the mirage was not that place to which he came, the place of a mirage, and if it had been, he would have said, “He found a mirage,” and it was not a mirage except in the eye of the seer seeking water, so this seer returned to himself when he did not find what he sought in that place. The spot, and he found God with him, so he resorted to Him in relieving him with water or with the remover of that thirst that was present with