The First Principle is described by ‘Abd al-Latif in a typical Avicennian phrase as the Pure Being (al-wujud al-mujarrad), the aim of everything, and the First mover immobile, pure act, eternal and everlasting, i.e., the First Principle whose knowledge is the end of our inquiry. The First mover not only produces the movement of the things, but it is their perfection, namely the paradigmatic cause, and their final cause. Abd al-Latif introduces the example of the law, which he derives from Themistius' paraphrase. The law moves politics in so far as it is chosen for itself. The First Principle, as God, is the cause for being of the worlds and their ordering according to their beauty and their duration and it is a substance which equals his science. The First Principle is also described as the True One (al-wahid al-haqq), one by essence, without any kind of multiplicity. The way to know this True One is to ascend from the things which have some degree of unity. So we say one army, one city, that Zayd is one, that the celestial sphere is one, and that the world is one. Then we proceed through souls and intellects, and through the things which in this ascent loose multiplicity and acquire unity until we reach the Absolute One (al-wahid al-mutlaq), the architectural principle of everything and the supreme intelligible which makes the world be, preserves its existence, and orders it. The First Cause is for ‘Abd al-Latif that cause which has within it all things in purely Neoplatonic vein. It is not surprising therefore that in paraphrasing chapter 10 of Lambda he speaks of emanation from the First Principle.