Substance / Accident: There is discontinuity between accidents and Substance, although from Substance to accidents there is an extremely subtle continuity in the sense that, Substance alone being fully real^?, accidents must necessarily be aspects of it; but in that case they are being considered only in terms of their cause and not in any other terms and the irreversibility of relationship is therefore maintained. In other words, the accident is reduced to Substance; as accident it is an exteriorization of Substance and to this corresponds the Divine Name Azh-Zhahir (The Outward) . . . The common meaning of the word “substance” clearly shows that there are intermediate substances which are “accidental” by comparison with pure Substance but nonetheless play the part of substances in relation to what is accidental for them. These substances are, in ascending order: matter, ether, the animic substance, supraformal and macrocosmic substance – which could also be termed “angelic” – and finally universal, metacosmic Substance which is one of the poles of Being, or its horizontal dimension or feminine aspect . . . To know that the “Substance of substances” is alone absolutely real, or that it is strictly speaking the only reality, means to see Substance in and through every accident; thanks to this initial knowledge of Reality, the world becomes metaphysically transparent. [GTUFS: UIslam, The Path]