Is the relation of the world in its existence to the truth the relation of the effect or the relation of the conditioned? It is impossible for the relation of the conditioned to be according to the two schools of thought. We do not say in the conditioned that it is and must be, but rather we say that if it exists then there must be the existence of its correcting condition for its existence, and we say in the world according to the doctrine of the Ashari theologian that it does not exist. It must exist, because knowledge preceded its existence, and it is impossible for something other than the known to occur, and this cannot be said about the conditional, and according to the doctrine of the opponent, namely the sages, it must exist because God required the existence of the world for its own sake, so it must exist as long as it is described by itself other than the condition, so there is no difference, then, between the Ash’arite theologian and the wise man regarding the necessity