The sixth point is to say: Suppose it follows that He has parts and portions, meaning that one thing in Him can be distinguished from another, just as one thing in the celestial sphere can be distinguished from another, and one side from another. This is what is meant by composition from parts. This would then be comparable to the attributes subsisting in Him: knowledge, power, life, hearing, sight, and all the other attributes.

As for your assertion that those things you have called parts must be either alike or different, the same can be said to you regarding the attributes that those who deny the attributes, such as Ibn Sīnā and others, have called parts. They say, “The Necessary Existent has no parts, whether parts of a definition or parts of a quantity,” although