Consequently He Who Wishes To Attain To

Now, We Occupy A Lowly Position, Both In Space And Rank In Comparison With The Heavenly Sphere, And The Almighty Is Most High Not In Space, But With Respect To Absolute Existence, Greatness And Power.

It Is Of Great Advantage That Man Should Know His Station, And Not Imagine That The Whole Universe Exists Only For Him.

No Form Remains Permanently In A Substance; A Constant Change Takes Place, One Form Is Taken Off And Another Is Put On.

The Corporeal Element In Man Is A Large Screen And Partition That Prevents Him From Perfectly Perceiving Abstract Ideals; This Would Be The Case Even If The Corporeal Element Were As Pure And Superior As The Substance Of The Spheres ; How Much More Must This Be The Case With Our Dark And Opaque Body. However Great The Exertion Of Our Mind May Be To Comprehend The Divine Being Or Any Of The Ideals, We Find A Screen And Partition Between God And Us.

The Mutakallemim... Apply The Term Non-existence Only To Absolute Non-existence, And Not To Absence Of Properties. A Property And The Absence Of That Property Are Considered By Them As Two Opposites, They Treat, E.g. , Blindness And Sight, Death And Life, In The Same Way As Heat And Cold. Therefore They Say, Without Any Qualification, Non-existence Does Not Require Any Agent, An Agent Is Required When Something Is Produced.