and likewise unto infinity. Thus, [the oneness of the One has been established] ¹ , and that it does not enter into number, nor does it multiply within itself, nor does it cause the other to multiply. This is because the One is One from all directions, and nothing exists with it in potentiality (bi-al-quwwah); rather, the entirety of things exists with it in actuality (bi-al-fi'l). The Unitary (al-Wahid) proceeds from it in actuality, and all things exist within the Unitary in potentiality, and he is capable of manifesting them in actuality.

Furthermore, from the Unitary proceeded one, and from the unitary nothing proceeds except one; thus they became two. The two is an even pair (zawj), yet it is unique (fard)—not by virtue of its duality, such that we would say: "Indeed, the pair of the two is unique," but rather by virtue of its pairings, since each one of the pair is the mate of the other. The witness to this is His saying, the Exalted: "And We said, 'O Adam, dwell, you and your mate, in Paradise and eat therefrom in abundance from wherever you will, but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers'" ² ,