one runs counter to this and is therefore among the most unsound arguments of the sophists, since it undermines the most evident, self-evident truths of sense perception.

It may then be said: This argument entails that neither Allah nor the indivisible atom can be one except through it. The same may then be said concerning its unity as you said concerning the unity of a body. This entails that the unity pertaining to the essence and to the indivisible atom depends on its being one. The same argument applies to that unity as to the first, which entails an infinite regress—and that is impossible. If this argument entails such unbelief, it also entails