(1) ʿ reads: “acts that do not subsist in Himself”; M: “actions that thereafter subsist in Himself.” (2) A and B read: “the statements of the imams among the philosophers”; N and M: “the statements of the philosopher-imams.” (3) B and ʿ read the indicative plural: “they accord”; N has the singular: “accords”; A has the n-less plural: “they accord.” (4) ʿ reads: “before Aristotle.” (5) N, M, and ʿ read: “the celestial sphere.” (6) N reads: “and by clear rational proof.” Mustajā Zādah wrote the following in the margin of ʿ opposite this passage: “Muhammad al-Shahrastānī relates in his work on kalām entitled *Nihāyat al-Iqdām* that the ancient philosophers before Aristotle held that the world was originated—that Allah brought it into being after it had not existed—just as the adherents of religions and revealed laws maintain. These philosophers included Socrates, Thales of Miletus, Plato, Anduqīs, and other pillars of philosophy. Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī states the same in *al-Abkār*. In *al-Arbaʿīn*, al-Imām also relates from Socrates the cause of the advent of the Greater Resurrection and the dissolution of the heavens and the earths, when the heavens will heave violently and the mountains will be set in motion. In sum, Aristotle and the philosophers who followed him went to the utmost extreme and insisted emphatically on denying the world’s origination and affirming its eternity, while claiming that they had established prophecies and revealed laws—even though doing so while asserting the world’s eternity is harder than stripping the thorns from a *qatād* tree. Yet near the beginning of the book, the commentator contradicted what he says here. There he stated that Aristotle and his followers did not uphold the eternity of the world and that Ibn Sīnā alone invented this doctrine. What he said there is incorrect, whereas what he says here is correct.” I say: Mustajā Zādah’s statement about the commentator—by whom he means Ibn Taymiyyah—is incorrect. Ibn Taymiyyah consistently states that Aristotle and his followers upheld the eternity of the world. (7) A and B read: “existing with its perpetuity.”