so, the difference between the Creator and the world was more complete than the difference between what inheres and its substrate. If you assert that they are separate in some respect other than these, so as to conclude that their separateness must be spatial, that is precisely the point at issue.”

I say: This presents some aspects of the argument he has cited from Ibn al-Haysam. This may be addressed in several ways. First, what he has offered as an answer actually establishes and reinforces his opponent’s argument; it does not answer it. He and others like him do this in a number of places. Allah, exalted is He, says:

“Or one brought up amid adornments, yet unable to make a clear case in dispute?” {18} [al-Zukhruf 18]

They said: “This refers to a woman: whenever she advances an argument in her favour, it turns against her.” These men display effeminacy through their resemblance to