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named the Maker, the Originator, the Fashioner, and the Creator
of the Worlds.
)3(ETERNITY
The third principle is the knowledge that Allah, besides being
without beginning, His Existence has no end.
He is the First and the Last, the Visible and the Invisible,
since that whose eternity is established His end is impossible.
Its proof lies in the realization that if it came to nothing
it is inevitable that it should come to nothing either
by Himself or by an opponent.
And if it were possible for a thing, which is conceived of as
self-subsisting, to come to nothing, it will be possible for
of the Worlds.
)3(ETERNITY
The third principle is the knowledge that Allah, besides being
without beginning, His Existence has no end.
He is the First and the Last, the Visible and the Invisible,
since that whose eternity is established His end is impossible.
Its proof lies in the realization that if it came to nothing
it is inevitable that it should come to nothing either
by Himself or by an opponent.
And if it were possible for a thing, which is conceived of as
self-subsisting, to come to nothing, it will be possible for