 God’s words, like our own spoken words, dissipate quickly, so he renews them constantly, “at every breath” (ma‘ al-anfâs). This is to say that “everything other than God” (the standard definition of the cosmos) is re-created at each instant (tajdîd al-khalq fi’l-ânât) and all things undergo constant change. The notion that “There is no repetition in [God’s] self-disclosure” (lâ takrâr fi’l-tajallî) is a basic principle of Ibn ‘Arabî’s thought. He sees it as a straightforward application of tawhîd. By acknowledging the unity of the Real, we recognize that it is one and unique in its every act, which means that each created thing and each moment of each thing is one and unique; nothing can ever be repeated precisely because of each thing’s uniqueness and the divine infinity.