all of this is due to the inability of the imagination to understand the existence of a subject except with the estimation of a before for it and that before from which the imagination is inseparable is thought to be something that is a real existing thing which is time.
وهذا كله لعجز الوهم عن فهم وجود مبتدأ إلا مع تقدير قبل له، وذلك القبل الذي لا ينفك الوهم عنه يظن أنه شيء محقق موجود هو الزمان.