ABSTRACT
Understanding the nature of Being will also help us understand specific existents, such as language or music, or love and justice, or any other material or abstract reality. The science of music is considered dependent and subsidiary to the science of mathematics. Philosophically, it is more convenient to speak about God as the absolute Being and the ultimate Reality or the Real. Privative properties are negative propositions that cannot be posited about Being. Being is unitary without distinction and differentiation and contraries that appear externally are its manifestations in accordance with the existential capacity. Being, with respect to its descending degrees of manifestation on the plane of contingency, and the multiplicity of its theophany, becomes farther removed from absoluteness, and is therefore described as intense or weak. God’s relationship to His creation is reflected in the transcendence and immanence duality, an overarching theme in philosophical Sufism. The oneness of Being relates to its singularly important corollary: divine unity.
