(Sermon 152) Everything associated with unity is deficient except Him.

(Sermon 152) Everything associated with unity is deficient except Him. (Sermon 65) How beautiful, profound, and full of meaning is the last sentence. It states that everything except the Divine Essence is limited if it is one. That is, every thing for which another of its kind is conceivable is a limited being and an addition of another individual would increase its number.

But this is not true of the Unity of the Divine Essence; for God's Unity lies in His greatness and infinity, for which a like, a second, an equal or a match is not conceivable. This concept that Divine Unity is not a numerical notion is exclusively an Islamic concept, original and profound, and unprecedented in…