ABSTRACT
Thus the knowledge of His uniqueness, we have learned it through speculation. We have begun with it [speculation] from where we have arrived to it [cognition of His uniqueness] by the knowledge of the existents, which we have learned. Moreover, [we have learned] from existence, which we [nash’ur] feel from our souls. One knows of it [existence] from his soul even though there would be no other with him in existence except himself. Thereupon, he cognizes through what he knows from his inner nature [fitratihi] that existence is divided in reasoning into necessary and possible; and the possible we have cognized, thus it is needed to cognize the Necessary. Thus a cognizance through it [man’s inner nature] is from existence itself, and from this we learn His unity and intellectually conceive His uniqueness.1
