continuous for you until the Day of Resurrection, what god other than Allah could bring you a night in which to rest? Will you not then see?’ {72} Out of His mercy, He made night and day for you, so that you may rest and seek His bounty, and so that you may be grateful. {73}” [al-Qasas 71–73]

The second point is that they relied on the premise that He does not bring anything into being until something comes to be; thus, He does not bring anything other than Himself into being until something comes to be within Him or He undergoes change. This issue has been the subject of well-known disagreement among earlier and later generations. Many groups among the theologians of the Mu'tazilah and Ash'ariyyah, jurists, scholars of hadith, Sufis, and others rejected this premise and asked whether something comes into being through Him after not previously doing so, without anything coming to be within Himself. Many groups among the theologians of the Shī'ah, Murji'ah, Karrāmiyyah, and the people of