only what we witness,” the entities of these forms.
We are three classes: one sound of vision and sharp of glance; one whose eyes are afflicted by dimness, unable to discern forms, though knowing that some affair is there without discerning its form; and among us one born blind who has never seen anything, untroubled in thought. There is no fourth class.
(Questioning, Aims, and Obligation)
These forms’ benefits differ according to recipients and questioners. Every questioner asks according to his need and aim, which may or may not be necessary. In truth there is only necessity; hence giving becomes incumbent. The questioner asks only for an aim whose need impels him to ask.
The aim is the questioner. The tongue, through state or speech, interprets that aim. That aim has no life except through obtaining what was asked for.
If it does not attain it, it perishes. The one withholding what it asked for causes its form’s disappearance from the world, thus diminishing through his withholding a form from the world that glorified God, exalted is He. The realized person wishes rather to add, not diminish.
Aims may be blamed. If enabled to attain what they seek, the human being falls into something forbidden worse than killing this aim by withholding its request. How, then, is escape from this question possible?
Know that one restricted and tethered within the grasp of obligation’s intellect is not addressed with fulfilling aims without qualification. This station belongs only
