Then their prophet said to them �Verily God has raised up Saul for you as king.� They said �How can he be king over us when we have better right than he to kingship seeing he has not been given amplitude of wealthḍ� He said �God has chosen him over you and has increased him broadly in knowledge and body jism. God gives the kingship to whom He will; and God is Embracing Knowing. They forgot [God's] right of free choice ikhtiyār and viewed the situation instead with the eye of the external world. They deemed it unlikely that Saul could be a king because he was poor and without property. [God] explained to them that merit is by the choice of the Real and that if [Saul] lacked wealth �God has increased him in knowledge and has favored him over you by his knowledge and body jism.� It is said that He meant that [Saul] was praiseworthy in the qualities of the self nafs not large in [his] physical frame binya for as it is said in the adage �So and so is a name without a body fulān ism bi-lā jism� that is a man without substance.