By Professor Paul E Walker
Ultimately one must ask how the first being, the source itself, came to be, for if it can be said to have come to be, it follows that it must have come from nothing. Here then is the core of the Ismaili creation theory. The coming-to-be of a thing from nothing must be, according to the Ismailis, above all beingness, i.e., above things of both the sensible and the intelligible worlds.
via The Institute of Ismaili Studies – The Ismaili Vocabulary of Creation.
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