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and the Rose, which is a deep chapter in the Rose, obscure in meaning. And perhaps it was stronger than the removal of a theological tendency from the Fatimids. Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, he began his life as a humble reformer who legislated reasonable laws for the people. For example, he prevented women from going out when he saw corruption, and he organized the country's finances and taxes with precise organization with the help of the Jews and Christians in his court. He brought Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham from Basra, who in his book "Optics" refuted Euclid's theory which states that vision occurs by something emanating from the eye to the visible object. Ibn al-Haytham promised Al-Hakim that he would regulate the Nile flood, but when he put his theory into practice, it turned out to be impossible to apply, so he disappeared, fleeing from Al-Hakim. And when people were seen to drink a lot of wine, he prohibited the cultivation of grapes and music, and even prohibited chess, and stripped the Mufti on the Nile when he saw the people's excess in pleasures, and prohibited people from making shoes for women so that they would not go out. He revived the old systems that required the People of the Book not to dress like Muslims. But after that, he became extreme in his theology, claiming that God had incarnated in him and that he was God. And he performed miracles in that, and he would go out into the desert to observe