When the youths took refuge in the Cave, that is, the Cave of the body by becoming attached to it; they said, by the tongue of [their] state: 'Our Lord! Give us from Yourself, that is, from the storehouses of Your mercy, which are Your Most Beautiful Names, mercy, perfection that corresponds to our preparedness and is entailed by it, and remedy for us our affair, one in which we find ourselves separated from the upper world and plunged down to the lower world to seek perfection, by way of rectitude', as a way of being upright before You by wayfaring along Your path and orienting ourselves to Your Side. In other words, they sought [from God] cognitive and practical perfection by corporeal conjunction and attachment to the instruments and causes of perfection.