1. If God had created a counterpart in existence
It would have been like Him, and that's impossible

2. God has no equal, as stated
In the Quran for those who have read

3. The notion that there are two existences
Is a fanciful illusion

4. One existence being creation, the other being Creator
That is association, which is idolatry

5. In truth, all creation is nonexistence
Which God predestined into existence

6. Known to Him from eternity past
Before He brought them into reality

7. He then manifested them through the precise decrees
He preordained, so they appeared

8. Transcendent and sanctified, distinct from
All that the mind conjectures

9. He alone is true Existence, outwardly manifest
Yet inwardly concealed from others' perception

10. For others only see His decree
But not Him, neither in vision nor in consciousness

11. A decree without a decreer
Is logically impossible in reason's realm

12. One who forms an image from nothingness
Is himself the existence beholding it

13. Yet it is veiled from him by his own illusion
While knowledge unveils what is ascertained

14. The deluded fool holds fast to his denial
Thereby going astray and refusing truth

15. While we know the decrees determined
By the Originator to whom all owes its being

16. We are among those decrees, all of us
While He alone is true Existence, in whom there is no doubt

17. He is unseen and unknown to us
And beyond our comprehension, as we have stated

18. So follow our path and speak as we have spoken
If you wish acceptance by the Greatest Elder