Intention is never related to anything except non-existent, so in the non-existent thing one of two things is intended: either creating an eye, which is the universe, or creating a rule, which is ratio, and then a third is intended. For example, creating an eye, our saying to a thing is only if we will it and it does not want it unless it is non-existent. We say to it “be” and it is. Thus, the existence of the essence of what is intended appears after it was non-existent, and such is the creation of the ruling, which is the ratio, the Almighty’s saying, “If He wills, He can take you away, then the taking away is non-existent,” and it is what He wills. If He wills, if He wishes, He executes it by denying His condition by which the rule of existence remains upon it, so it becomes subject to the rule of the noun of the non-existent, and the doer does nothing, so the intention is related to the execution, so it describes the existing. By virtue of nothingness, not because it was nothi