He added that 'None, however, of the Muslim philosophers engaged so much in transmitting Aristotle's lore as did the two men just mentioned. While discussing the views of the theists among the Greek philosophers, namely, and in Al-Munqidh min ad-Dalal ('Deliverance from Error'), al-Ghazali noted that the Greek philosophers 'must be taxed with unbelief, as must their partisans among the Muslim philosophers, such as Ibn Sina and al-Farabi and their likes.' Avicenna's theology on metaphysical issues ( ilāhiyyāt) has been criticized by some, among them, and. 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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