Abu Rayhan began by asking Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of Aristotle's. Al-Biruni correspondence Correspondence between Ibn Sina (with his student Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Ma'sumi) and has survived in which they debated and the. Avicenna adds that the 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' has no genus ( jins), nor a definition ( hadd), nor a counterpart ( nadd), nor an opposite ( did), and is detached ( bari) from matter ( madda), quality ( kayf), quantity ( kam), place ( ayn), situation ( wad), and time ( waqt). However, if no differentia distinguishes them from each other, then there is no sense in which these 'Existents' are not one and the same. Yet, to require differentia entails that they exist 'due-to-themselves' as well as 'due to what is other than themselves' and this is contradictory. Furthermore, It is 'One' ( wahid ahad) since there cannot be more than one 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' without differentia (fasl) to distinguish them from each other.
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