The exposition of Lambda is followed by three chapters which discuss the theme of Providence (πρόνοια) of the First Principle. ‘Abd al-Latif’s main source is Alexander of Aphrodisias’ De Providentia (Ruland 1976, 1979; Zimmermann 1986; Thillet 2003; Martini Bonadeo 2017a). ‘Abd al-Latif therefore mutually harmonizes two solutions which are in reality quite different from one another, not to say alternative: that put forward by Alexander regarding the problem of divine providence—the First Principle thinks and knows primarily only itself, but it eternally knows the events of the world too, subject to becoming, in so far as it exercises its own direction over them through the celestial order—and that of Themistius, which ‘Abd al-Latif had already made his own in the course of his paraphrase of Lambda, whereby God knows that which is different from him without for this reason coming out of himself, since he contains in him all the ideas of all things, and is the norm and the condition of the intelligibility of the world.