In Sahih Muslim, ‘Iyād ibn Himār, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, said:

“Allah Most High says: ‘I created My servants inclined to pure monotheism, but the devils led them astray, forbade them what I had made lawful for them, and commanded them to associate with Me that for which I had sent down no authority.’”

Affirming the Creator, glorified and exalted is He, and acknowledging the existence of a necessarily existent Being, eternal and without beginning, are ingrained in the innate disposition and firmly established in people’s hearts. The proofs and evidence for this are exceedingly numerous, but this is not the place to discuss them. Most of the methods these people present are either flawed or lengthy and laborious; the former is more common among them.

[Al-Rāzī’s Proof of the Maker’s Existence]

Al-Rāzī established the existence of the Maker through five approaches, all of which rest upon a single premise.

(First)

Arguing from the temporal origination of entities, as in arguing from the temporal origination of bodies on the basis of the temporal origination of accidents, such as motion and rest, and the impossibility of anything with no