 The philosophers and theologians commonly debated God’s knowledge of the particulars. The Koran says repeatedly that God knows everything. “Not a leaf falls”, it says, “but God knows it” (6:59). Ibn ‘Arabî holds that God’s knowledge of both universals and particulars pertains to the Essence and does not change. God knows the falling leaf always and forever, and when it is time for it to fall, he says to it, “Fall!” So also are all things: “His only command, when He desires a thing, is to say to it ‘Be!’, and it comes to be” (Koran 36:82).