Does not the eternal vibrational universe require a Creator to dominate and program it, and does this prove the impossibility of an ancient, eternal universe?
The theories concerning the origin of the universe are numerous, but it is obligatory for a Muslim to believe that Allah Almighty created this world by His will, power, and wisdom. The sound innate dispositions and intellects bear witness that the occurrence of the world is created after it had not been. The assertion of the existence of events whose type has no beginning does not necessitate the eternity of the universe or the pre-existence of the world. The former is true, while the latter is false. Ibn Taymiyyah differentiates between the specific ancient whose existence has no beginning, and the generic ancient which forms gradually, so its type is continuous and ancient, but its individual instances are not ancient. The statement regarding the pre-existence of the world means that it was never non-existent, but rather eternal, and this is a falsehood that contradicts the affirmation of a generic ancientness for events. And events are a definitive proof of the existence of their originator and orchestrator.
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