He replied, may Allah be pleased with him:

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. The statements mentioned contain two false principles that contradict the religion of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, as well as transmitted revelation and reason.

(The first)

Divine indwelling and union, and related doctrines such as the unity of existence. Those who hold this view say that existence is one: the necessary existence of the Creator is the contingent existence of the created being. This is maintained by proponents of the unity of existence, such as Ibn ‘Arabī and his companion al-Qūnawī; Ibn Sab‘īn; Ibn al-Fārid, author of the poem rhyming in t—The Spiritual Path in Verse; and ‘Āmir al-Basrī al-Sīwāsī, who composed a poem comparable to that of Ibn al-Fārid. They also include al-Tilimsānī, who wrote a commentary on The Stations of al-Nifrī and a commentary on the Most Beautiful Names following the approach of these men; Sa‘īd al-Farghānī, who wrote a commentary on Ibn al-Fārid’s poem; al-Shushtarī, author of zajal poems (vernacular verse) and a disciple of Ibn Sab‘īn; ‘Abd Allah al-Balyānī; Ibn Abī al-Mansūr, the Egyptian Sufi, author of Unfastening the Buttons from the Necks of Mysteries; and others like them.

Some of these men distinguish between existence and subsistence—as Ibn ‘Arabī does—and claim