Know first that God Almighty is the First who has no priority for anything before Him and no priority for anything that exists with Him or does not exist with Him. For He is the One, Glory be to Him, in His primacy. There is nothing necessary to exist for Himself except Him, for He is absolutely self-sufficient in Him. The Almighty said, “For God is independent of the worlds, with rational and legal evidence. The existence of the world is not devoid of its existence as long as its existence is due to God for Himself, Glory be to Him, or for an additional matter that is Himself, since if He were Himself, He would not be additional, and if He were Himself also, He would be compounded within Himself, and the primacy of that additional matter would be.” We assumed that there is no priority for anything with it or before it. If that additional matter is not itself, it is not devoid of either existence or non-existence. It is impossible for non-existence to be non-existent. For non-exis