The Thirteenth is Dumbness (kharas). In it is the idea of Silence (bakam) and it is the opposite of Speech.
The Fourteenth is God’s Being Weak (kawn ajiz). It is the opposite of His Being Powerful.
The Fifteenth is His Being an Unwilling One (kawn karih). It is the opposite of His Being a Willer.
The Sixteenth is His Being an Ignorant One (kawn jahil). It is the opposite of His Being a Knower.
The Seventeenth is His Being a Dead One (kawn mayyit). It is the opposite of His Being a Living One.
The Eighteenth is His Being Deaf (asamm). It is the opposite of His Being a Hearer.
The Nineteenth is His Being Blind (a‘ma). It is the opposite of His Being a Seer.
The Twentieth is His Being Silent (abkam). In it is the idea of Dumbness (kharas) and it is the opposite of His Being a Speaker.
All these twenty are impossible in God. And know that the proof of each one of the twenty qualities necessary in God establishes the existence of that quality in Him and denies to Him its opposite. And the proofs of the seven thought-qualities are proofs of the seven derived from these. Thus, there are Forty Articles; twenty of them are necessary in God; twenty are denied in Him; and there are twenty general proofs, each proof establishing a quality and annulling its opposite.
Notice. Some say that things are four, entities, non-entities, states and relations (i‘tibarat). The entities are like the essence of Zayd which we see; the non-entities are like your child before it is created; the states are like Being Powerful; and so, too, the relations, like the establishing of standing in Zayd. This—I mean that things are four—is the view which as-Sanusi follows in his Sughra, for he asserts in it the existence of states and makes the necessary qualities to be twenty. But elsewhere, he follows the opinion which denies states, and that is the right view.