And if you think secondly, there is no lover or beloved except God Almighty, for there is nothing in existence except the Divine Presence, which is His essence, His attributes, and His actions, as you say, the words of God are His knowledge and His knowledge is His essence. For it is impossible for Him to establish by His essence an additional matter or an additional entity that is His essence, to which He gives a ruling that is not valid for it. That ruling is without it, which constitutes its perfection in its divinity. Rather, divinity is not valid without it, and it is the fact that he is knowledgeable of everything. He mentioned that about himself in the way of praising himself, and the rational evidence indicated it. It is impossible for his essence to be perfected other than what his essence is, so that it would gain honor through something other than it.