Know, may God support you with a spirit from Him, that when God created things according to the rule of what existence required, the origin upon which it is, and for Him was created everything other than God Almighty. He did not create anything except that He created for it an opposite, a likeness, and a disagreement, so He made agreement in disagreement, repulsion in opposition, and correspondence in proverbs, so the worst of things. Continuing, loving, and uniting the disagreement with its opponent, and for this reason the disagreement is according to the person who disagrees with it, and is not distinguished from its owner except by his ruling, so the two disagreements are united by the place and distinguished by the ruling on it. As for the proverb with its like, the occasion brings them together in affection, so every like is loved by its like for what it contains of the occasion of likeness, and if they do not come together, then the proverb resembles the disagreement in Lov