[And when He showed him a sign in some of the horizons, He wanted to show him a sign in himself, so He said:] "And draw your hand close to your side, which comes out from your pocket where your neck is, to your side, meaning your side under the arm, so it will be joined to what it is in its color and what it has of burning. And bring it out; it will come out. The sign is from the category of being hidden, and the side refers to the hand, the arm, the armpit, and the side - this is what is said in the dictionary. This does not contradict what is in the stories, because there he referred to the side as the hand, which is more deserving of it, and here it refers to the side which is its place, naming the place by the name of the one residing in it. "White" is whiteness like the sun that you marvel at.

And when leprosy was the most hated thing to the Arabs, he said negating it and others, and he did not name it by its name because their ears find it repulsive. And because the negation of the general from a thing is more effective than its negation in particular: "Without any harm," meaning no disease, neither leprosy nor anything else, while it is "another sign." Do what I commanded you to do, which is to throw down the staff and draw your hand close, or we did that from the transformation of the staff and the color of the hand from calling you to your supplication.