and Eve was not two but rather one. He, the Exalted, expressed the single entity by the term "mate" (zawj), since each one of the two is the mate of the other, and the other is a mate to him—just like Adam and Eve; for Adam is a mate to Eve, and Eve is a mate to Adam.
Furthermore, from the Unitary (al-Wahid) also proceeded one, and from the unitary nothing proceeds except one; thus the sum total became three. The three consists of unique (fard / odd) and pair (zawj / even). The third is the mate of the second, and the second is the mate of the first. The three is itself the pair and the unique, since each one of them is the mate of the other, while it is in itself odd (fard). Therefore, the three is the totality of number and its ultimate limit, since number does not exit beyond the even and the odd. The entirety of number is within the three in potentiality, and it is the perfect number, and it is the ultimate end of every limit among the numerical ranks. The entirety of [number consists of three] 1 ranks, which are: ones, tens, and thousands 2 . For each rank among these ranks, there is an ultimate limit.