Know that the temporal appointed time is designated by the divine name, eternity, and know that some of time is what is above nature, which is the doctrine of theologians, and some of it is what is under nature, so it has general ruling, so what it has of ruling is under nature, so physical ruling is distinguished by the movements of the spheres, and time in itself is reasonable, and the path to its rationality is illusion. It is an imaginary extension interrupted by the movements of the spheres, such as the void, an imaginary extension not in a body, so the sum of this statement is that it is non-existence, and as for time that is above nature, it is distinguished by conditions and identified with an existential matter that it throws into the mind by the name “time,” and it is accompanied by the word “when” in the Arabic tongue, so “when” accompanies natural and unnatural time, and it has occurred. In matters and divine and temporal proportions, the relation of time and place, wh