Yet some writers on speculative theology do not address this premise. Rather, they consider their assertion, “Whatever is never free of originated occurrences is itself originated,” sufficient to establish the origination of whatever is necessarily accompanied by such occurrences. They maintain that saying “originated occurrences” and saying “without a beginning” involves an obvious contradiction in both wording and meaning, and that describing them as originated occurrences necessarily implies that they have a beginning. This is the approach of Judge Abū Bakr, Judge Abū Ya‘lā, and others.

Their assertion resembles their claim that denying the world’s origination is the position of those who deny the Maker. Because of the ambiguity in this proposition, they overlooked this point, which must be understood. Through this approach, they denied [that] any act could subsist in Him. They thus denied that the Lord rose over the Throne after not having been over it—something the Quran explicitly affirms in the words of the Exalted:

“He created the heavens and the earth in six days, then rose over