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and more gracious than the nature and the nature is more
honorable, more delicate and more gracious than the
elements. Allah made also more than one factor to
motivate each essence, so he made the most intensive
motivation to the one beneath in the essences, so the
motivator would have a desire for the motivation and fee)
the need for him, show love and affection to him and to
not forget him.
Then Allah created the orbits and shapes. So he made
the orbit of the soul between four orbits. There are two
above that are luminous, superior and mannerly and thev
are the primordial matter and the mind and there are two
under the soul that are dark, depraved and connected and
those arc nature and the elements.
The soul that was dominated bv leading personalitv is
always a lit happy, honorable and their fate and their end
is in high heaven that originally came and extended there
from- Then the soul that is dominated by lowers becomes
dark, depraved and miserable and their fate and end is in
the lower hell that they inspired and extended from. Allah
also created bestial souls, plants and objects that do not
need mind or high primordial matter because Allah did
not feel that they needed these functions and these souls
were dominated with the low forms of the nature and the
elements and their fate is the dust that thev came and
extended from. All this is formed and done with Allah's
presence and knowledge.
An example of this are the trees and plants in thai
beginning they are just seeds then they have roots and
these in turn become branches, then all the way until it
becomes a tree. The plant's soul extends from the ground
and the roots and from the air the branches, then the one
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