Chapter One

The Creator, Glorified is His Glory, and His Manifestation

Among the fundamental principles and important origins that every knowing unitarian acknowledges is that the Creator, glorified and exalted is He, was when there was no place, no era, and no time, as our Sheikh al-Khasibi, Allah purified his person, said: "He was when there was no being with Him, ancient, primordial, unitary, singular, eternal refuge, nothing with Him."

And our Master as-Sadiq, glorified is his glory, said: "Allah was when there was no place, then He created place and delegated to it the command and the prohibition."

And the Creator, glorified is He, in His eternity and the reality of His Essence, is not subject to a name, an attribute, a limitation, or a description.

For it has come in The Baghdadi Epistle: "The ancient, primordial is not subject to a name or an attribute, and it is not said of Him before or after; and their saying that He is not subject to a name, an attribute, a description,