It is the opposite of the signified, and that the signifier, who is the observer of the evidence, if it is in it and with it is combined, it will not be with the signified, and your evidence for the truth is yourself and the world, as He said, “We will show them Our signs,” meaning the evidence of Us in the horizons and in their souls. And he said, “Whoever knows himself knows his Lord.”

He made you a guide to Him, so he united you with you and separated you from him in the event that he united you with you. Then he said to Abu Yazid, Leave yourself and the Almighty, so he separated you from you so that you may meet with him and not meet with him until you look at the evidence with him, not with you, so you know that you are still united with him in the event that you look at the evidence. For he is your hearing and your sight. You and he are combined in the event that you ask for it. So whoever you ask for or whoever seeks is still in the eye of gathering with him,

Since permanence is the conjunction of the truth with the world, the rule of combination in existence and in non-existence has not ceased, for it is with the possible in the case of its nonexistence, just as it is with it in the case of its existence. So wherever we are, God is with us. Monotheism is intelligible and does not exist, and the combination exists and is intelligible, and men have a degree over them, and it is only the degree of existence if He wants. Monotheism is what created the world while knowing that if He brought it into being, He would associate it with Him. Then He commanded him to unite it, and nothing came back to Him except His action, for He was and there was nothing with Him that could be characterized by existence. So He was the first to enact polytheism because He associated with Him the world in existence. The world did not open its eyes nor see itself except as a partner in existence. He has no taste in monotheism, so where does he know it? When it wa