Thus Ibn Sīnā, together with others of his ilk, ranks among the leading figures of these people; indeed, the members of his own household belonged to the daʿwah of al-Ḥākim and to the other chiefs of the Ismāʿīlī Qarmaṭī Bāṭiniyyah.

As for the view that speaks of an “absolute, unconditioned existent” that can be predicated of everything that exists, it resembles the opinion of one who unites two contraries: he attributes to this supposed absolute all the properties of every being, however mutually contradictory, and thus makes the existence of the Creator identical with— or at least a part of—the existence of the creature.