It is well known that the consensus affirming that Allah Most High is free from attributes of imperfection encompasses every imperfection in His attributes, whether related to action or otherwise. You and all the various groups divide the attributes into attributes of His essence and attributes of His actions, and agree that He is free from imperfection in both.

Moreover, this argument is undermined by all the newly arising relations and negations that they allow. For the Lord is free from imperfections in affirmation, negation, and relation alike. Whatever answer they give concerning newly arising matters is therefore also available to their opponents concerning newly occurring events.

Their answer concerning newly arising matters is that these cannot have existed from eternity.

They may therefore be told:

“Likewise, successive events cannot have existed from eternity.” He and others like him give a similar answer to the eternalists concerning the world's having come into existence.

Among their arguments is Proclus’s objection. They say:

“Generosity is an attribute of perfection, and its absence is an attribute of imperfection. If the world were eternal, the Lord Most High would have been generous from eternity. If, however, it came into existence, the Lord Most High would not have been generous from eternity, since no world had come from Him. This is impossible.”

He then said in reply:

“As for the fourth objection, the import of the word