Tafsîl-i hâl bu minvâl üzredir ki mutlakan idrâk, müdrikin zâtından hâriç olan eşyâya bi’z-zât şu‘ûr ve ıttıiâ‘ından ibâret olarak şâir kâinât ve mevcûdât miyânından yalnız hayvâna mahsûs olup

This comes about as follows: Perception - that is, consciousness, on the part of the person who perceives, in his essence of things that are outside his essence - is something (412) peculiar to living beings to the exclusion of all other being and existent things.