[Footnote 1: A translation of Averroes’ Kitab Fasl a’l Maqal wa Taqrir ma bain’a’l Shariata wa’l Hikmati mina’l Ittisal. Ed. by D. J. Muller, Philosophie und Theologie von Averroes, Munich 1859.] [Footnote 2: _i. e._ Shariat. Compare Jewish Torah.] [Footnote 3: Quran lix, 2.] [Footnote 4: Quran vii, 184.] [Footnote 5: Quran vi, 75.] [Footnote 6: Quran lxxxviii, 17.] [Footnote 7: Quran iii, 176.] [Footnote 8: Quran lix, 2.] [Footnote 9: Quran xvi, 126.] [Footnote 10: “It is he who hath created you whatsoever is on earth, and that set His mind to the creation of heaven and formed it into seven heavens; he knoweth all thing.” Quran ii, 29. For an interpretation of this see Raji’s _Tafsiri Kabir_ vol. I. p. 249 et seq. Cairo. 1307. A. H. and Tabari’s _Commentary_ vol. I. p. 146 et seq. Cairo. 1902 A. D.] [Footnote 11: “Verily God comes down every night to the earth” (Nibayah fi Gharibil Hadith by Ibu Athir vol. IV. p. 138 Cairo 1311 A. H.) For an interpretation see the above and Qustatain’s Commentary on Bukari, vol. IX p. 178. Cairo. 1307 A. H.] [Footnote 12: Quran iii, 5.] [Footnote 13: Quran iii, 5.] [Footnote 14: Quran xi, 9.] [Footnote 15: Quran xiv, 19.] [Footnote 16: Quran xli, 10.] [Footnote 17: Quran xxxi, 12.] [Footnote 18: Quran iii, 5.] [Footnote 19: Quran xvii, 87.] [Footnote 20: Quran ii, 79.] [Footnote 21: Quran xxii, 38.] [Footnote 22: Quran xxix, 44.] [Footnote 23: Quran xxxiii, 67.] Ia. APPENDIX. ON THE PROBLEM OF ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE, WHICH AVERROES HAS MENTIONED IN HIS DECISIVE DISCOURSE. May God perpetuate your honour and bless you, and screen you always from the eyes of misfortune. Through your excellent intelligence and good understanding you have learned a great part of all these sciences, till your insight informed you of the doubt which arises concerning the eternal knowledge of God, with its being at the same time concerned with created things. Thus, in the interests of truth, it is now incumbent upon us to remove the doubt from your mind, after we have stated it clearly. For one who does not know the problem adequately cannot very well solve the doubt.