So the First is God, and the mind is a veil over Him and a shield over which attributes are successive. And since all entities are manifestations, their relation to divinity is one and the same in terms of what they are manifestations, it is called the Last, for the Other is the otherness of genera, not the otherness of persons, and He is the First by the primacy of genera and the primacy of persons, because He only created an entity. One thing, which is the pen or the mind, whatever you want to call it, and since the world has appearances and interiorities in terms of what is apparent, He, Glory be to Him, is the apparent in relation to what is apparent from it, and the hidden in relation to what is hidden from it, and He is All-Knowing of the entity of entities and the entity of existence in terms of its types, types and persons. It has become clear that It began with the existence of the first mind.

The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: The first