And when the Exalted informed that He created the heavens and the earth and what He spread in them of benefits [of entities] and meanings, and He fulfilled the earth with its two parts, land and sea, including therein the four elements upon which the compounds are established, the most astonishing of what is for the created beings among the creations is what is in the sea, and its rider is in the state of non-existence. This indicated that He is the Unique in all of that by the destruction of creation. So He said, beginning anew, expressing with the nominal phrase indicating permanence and with 'who' to indicate the explicitness of the annihilation of the rational being [upon the annihilation of the non-rational being] in the manner of priority: 'Every being upon it' meaning: the earth with its two parts and the heaven also 'is perishing' meaning: destroyed and non-existent in reality after it was, he and others from all that [besides] it, and there is nothing of all that from its essence except non-existence. So it is perishing in this regard, and although it is existent, its existence is between two non-existences, the first of which is that it did not exist, and the second is that it will cease to exist. Then it is in what [is between] that, alternating between existence and annihilation at times of its states, attributes, and powers. The causes of destruction are surrounding it in reality and meaning, and it does not see them just as they are surrounding one who is in the ship from above him, below him, and from all directions.