He is exalted even above this knowledge.

He is exalted even above this knowledge." "Out of this One Being all existence comes, losing something of goodness as it is separated from the One, in a chain, each of whose links is farther and farther away from the Pure Being, on to the last link which consists of the material world and animals with their physical bodies.” "Thus Plotinus says: the One engendered Intelligence, which created Soul; Soul, the offspring of Divine Intelligence, created the rest of the world in a sequence of descending order of beings reaching to the bottom of existence, the world of matter and motion."[^3] Thus, in Plotinus' view, the only role of the One was to create Intelligence.

After that there was nothing for Him to do! As to "YHWE", the Lord God of Israel, He is the special God of Israel, who demands from the Israelites that they turn away from other gods and worship Him alone. He has anthropomorphic attributes. He can become wrathful and vengeful, but, when His people return to Him, He becomes pleased with them, desists from His intention to destroy them, and becomes extremely sorry for His intentions and actions.

We need not repeat our comments about the varieties of Christian concepts. Their mixing of the nature of man and the nature of God in Jesus, may peace be upon him, and whatever absurdities follow from such contradictions, have been discussed in Chapter I, entitled' 'The Wilderness and Intellectual Rubbish." Similarly, we discussed the various concepts of the Objective Materialists earlier and need not repeat them here.

From this wilderness of murky concepts let us turn now to the clear, straight, and appealing Islamic concept. In the Islamic concept of God we are dealing with a living Creator and Administrator, an All-knowing God who is active and able to do anything He desires. The Ultimate authority is His. The universe came into being when He willed it to be, and whatever has happened within it and is happening now, including every movement and every change, originates in His will.

Nothing takes place in this universe except by His will, knowledge, decision, and action. And He, the Glorious, is directly in touch with every single person, as well as with every animal and every single thing, through His knowledge, His will, and His plan.