ABSTRACT
According to Alrazi, those five things are necessary postulates of the actually existing world.. For that which the senses perceive in it is the VA'YJ acquiring shape by means of combination. Besides, the vA'YJ occupies some place, and therefore we must admit the existence of space. The changes apparent in the world of sense compel us to assume the existence of time, for some of them are earlier, others later, and the before and the afterioards, the earlier and the later, and the simultaneous can only be perceived by means of the
with the black colour, but a kind of non-existence like the state of a sleeping person. Then God created this world for Brahman as a cupola for him. He made it to consist of two parts, a higher and a lower one, and placed the sun and moon in it." Kapila declares: " God has always existed, and with him the world, with all its substances and bodies. He, however, is a cause to the world, and rises by the subtlety of his nature above the gross nature of the world." Kumbhaka says: "The primeval one is Mahdbhuta, i.e. the compound of the five elements. Some declare that the primeval thing is time, others nature, and still others maintain that the director is karman, i.e. action."
