Section: Some Points That Reveal Their Disbelief and the Falsity of Their Doctrine

This is evident in several respects.

First: Their doctrine amounts to saying that Allah has neither created anything, nor originated it, nor brought it into being, nor fashioned it. For if no existence is there but His existence, it is impossible for Him to create His own existence or bring His own essence into being. That nothing creates itself is among the clearest and most immediately evident truths to reason. Hence He, glorified be He, says:

“Or were they created by nothing, or are they themselves the creators?”

They know that they were not created without a creator, and they know that nothing creates itself. It therefore necessarily follows that they have a creator. Yet according to these disbelieving, Pharaonic heretics, there is nothing that the Lord could have created, brought into being, or originated except His own holy Self. And His holy Self can only be created, subject to lordship, made, and brought into being; for this is impossible according to the self-evident principles of reason. This is among the most manifest forms of disbelief according to the adherents of all faiths and schools of thought.

As for the view of the author of al-Fusūs (The Bezels), there is nothing but His existence and the entities established in nonexistence, which are independent of Him. His existence cannot be created, and those entities are independent of Him; thus Allah has created nothing.