 this is exactly what we have decided for them in their fate to the impossibility of the occurrence of matter and elements and the impossibility of their nonexistence in the issue of the eternity and everlastingness of the world and the origin of the confusion is their placing possibility as a description that calls for a place in which it stands. and they have concealed it with what is convincing in it so we will not repeat it for the issue is the issue so there is no difference between the speaker being a substance of matter or a substance of soul.
وهذا بعينه هو الذي قررناه لهم في مصيرهم إلى استحالة حدوث المادة والعناصر واستحالة عدمها في مسألة أزلية العالم وأبديته ومنشأ التلبيس وضعهم الإمكان وصفا مستدعيا محلا يقوم به. وقد تكمنا عليه بما فيه مقنع فلا نعيد فإن المسألة هي المسألة فلا فرق بين أن يكون المتكلم فيه جوهر مادة أو جوهر نفس.