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The Raddadiyah Epistle - Yusuf ibn al-Ajuz al-Raddad al-Ḥalabi

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Listen, for within its verification is wisdom

And understand, so that perchance you may be saved [and not] 1 fall into misery 2 .

Three whose inward reality is one, And the inward of the inward belongs to the Semantic One (al-Ma'nawi).

THE AFFIRMATION OF MONOTHEISM AND THE TRINITY THROUGH VARIOUS SCIENCES

Let us clarify the verification of what we have mentioned regarding the monotheism of the One (al-Ahad)—who is the First Perfection—and its validity by way of calculation and geometry:

Indeed, the One does not enter into number, is not characterized [by a duration of time] 3 , and does not multiply within itself, since it is the First Perfection that acts upon the Second Perfection, which is the receptive actor (al-munfa'il al-fa'il). It possesses nothing but a single attribute, which is [the Action] 4 . All the attributes by which [the Actor is described are actions] 5 , and the entirety of actions is a single entity,

Footnotes

1In another manuscript: yet he did not (falam instead of wa-la).
2In another manuscript: burn (tashtawi instead of tashqawi).
3In another manuscript: with a duration (bi-madadin instead of fi madadin).
4In other manuscripts: the Actor, the Action (al-fa'il al-fi'l).
5In another manuscript: are the actions of the Actor (af'al al-fa'il).
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