Abū al-Thanā’ al-Urmawī objected to this as follows:

“None of the particular motions is eternal; rather, each one comes into being. What is eternal is only motion in general, through the succession of particular instances. It is not preceded by anything else, so it does not follow that the particular motions must have a first member.”

This objection—as presented by al-Āmidī—may be explained as follows:

His statement, “Either it is maintained that something among them has existed from