existent and separate from Him. Rather, they regard it as something non-existent that bears a relation and connection to Allah, since it is conceived space. This does not entail the existence of any entity other than Him, just as His being in pre-eternity, neither in time nor in conceived time, did not entail the existence of another eternal entity alongside Allah.

Those who hold that conceived time and conceived space have real existence maintain that both are eternal, as do a group of the Sabians and their followers. They may hold that this is inseparable from the Necessary Existent Himself, or they may speak of five eternal entities: time, space, soul, prime matter, and the Necessary Existent