were created by Allah Most High. Thus, for someone to say, after this, “We cannot conceive of anything coming into being and being brought into existence except within a particular time; yet we have concluded that time came into being outside time,” is like saying, “I have never conceived of anything coming into being except during night or day; yet we have concluded that night and day came into being outside both night and day. And we have never conceived of anything except within the heavens and the earth; yet we have conceived of the heavens and the earth coming into being outside any heavens or earth.”

It is well known that this is among the most unsound statements, judged by both sense perception and reason. For just as a person witnesses things coming into being outside both night and day, he also witnesses