we said let it be so for the whole is constituted by the parts and their coming together and there is no cause for the parts or their coming together but rather it is eternal likewise without an effective cause. so they cannot refute this except by what they mentioned about the necessity of denying plurality from the first existent and we have invalidated it for them and they have no other way.
قلنا ليكن كذلك فالجملة تقومت بالأجزاء واجتماعها ولا علة للأجزاء ولا لاجتماعها بل هي قديمة كذلك بلا علة فاعلية. فلا يمكنهم رد هذا إلا بما ذكروه من لزوم نفي الكثرة عن الموجود الأول وقد أبطلناه عليهم ولا سبيل لهم سواه.