ABSTRACT
The reality of being, insofar as it is so unconfined by absoluteness or limitation (ghayr muqayyad bi-l-iÏlÉq wa-l-taqyÊd), is essential activity and manifestation (alfiÑliyya wa-l-ÐuhËr). Contingent meanings and mental qualities only attach to it [being] with respect to its degrees . . . So being becomes absolute and limited, universal and particular, one and many with the occurrence of distinction in its essence and its reality.
