Know that when God Almighty created the pen and the tablet, He called them the mind and the spirit, and gave the spirit two qualities, a scientific characteristic and a practical characteristic, and made the mind a teacher and a beneficiary of a present observation, just as you benefit from the image of a knife cutting without speech, which is from Him in that. And God Almighty created a substance other than the soul, which is the soul. The one mentioned called it “Al-Haba” and this name for it we quoted from the words of Ali bin Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him .