Even for the knowledgeable, the tasks get vitiated by the blemishes of fate or the gods, or the human nature. It is not impossible to divine what is meant here, but how much more idiomatically it could have been done: Things go wrong, even for the wise, because of the iniquities of fate and of men. The bibliographical control of source works is almost non-existent, although this is not always a...

ibn sina considers the first being in the world to be the first intellect, which issues from the necessary being on the basis of the principle, ‘only one issues from that which is one in all respects’, and through the different aspects of which all other beings come into existence. ibn arabi rejects the basis of ibn sina’s theory of the first emanation, which is the above mentioned principle, a...