 she said o soul astonished by its affair in what it knows and in what it does not know do you remember where you were and where you came from and how you became attached to this dark dead ignorant body and how you managed it and how you remained in it with the causes that held you with it and how you separated from it when the afflictions befell it?
قالت يا أيتها النفس المعجب شأنها فيما علمت وفيما جهلت هل تذكرين أين كنت ومن أين أقبلت، وكيف تعلقت بهذا الجسد المظلم الميت الجاهل، وكيف تصريفك له، وكيف بقاؤك فيه بالأسباب الممسكة لك معه، وكيف انفصالك عنه عند الآفات العارضة له