In that case, their error may lie only in considering eternal power and will alone sufficient, as those who maintain that newly arising events must have a newly arising cause would argue. They would then be obliged to affirm the perpetuity of newly arising events, as some among the early generations, scholars of hadith, theologians, and philosophers have held.

In short, if this argument is sound, it establishes an error in one of the two positions; it does not establish the correctness of the opponent’s position.

[The sixth argument]

Al-Āmidī said:
“This applies specifically to those who hold that utterance arises anew. They agree that an utterance is composed of letters arranged in sequence, and that the letters are mutually opposed. Just as we know that blackness and whiteness cannot coexist, we know that letters cannot coexist ن, and that the letters kāf and nūn in His utterance, ‘kun’ (Be), cannot coexist.

“They also agree that the Creator cannot cease to possess the utterances newly arising in His Essence once they have subsisted in Him. In that case, either it is held that the letters of an utterance coexist in the Essence of the Creator, Most High, or it is not