When night descended upon him, that is, when the night of the world of corporeal nature grew dark over him during his childhood and early youth, he saw, the star of the dominion of the human frame, which is the soul referred to as 'spiritual spirit' he found that his effusion, his life and his lordship was issuing from this [soul], since God, exalted be He, was showing him at that moment through His name the Life-giver (muḥyī), and so he [Abraham] said [the following] by the tongue of his state: 'This is my Lord'. But when it set, by his crossing over the station of the soul and [by] the rising of the light of the heart and its radiating over him with its vestiges of maturity, rational comprehension and knowledge of the contingency of the soul and the necessity of its being imprinted upon the body, he said, 'I love not those that set', those who are eclipsed in the setting place of the body, who are veiled by it, hiding behind the darkness of contingent existence and the need for the other.