207- Waves and the Sea, or shadow and the cause of shadow
They say notions such as waves and the sea, or shadow and the cause of shadow. Existence of what place and the reflection of whom? The shadow of whom? What existence? What shadow? What sea? You will never have an answer to these. If your reply is "the shadow of God," are you considering a physical body for God to consider a shadow for Him?
The existence is the same united oneness. All apparent multiplicities and changes are nothing but deceptive appearances.
Parmenides
How is it possible for the existence to be destroyed, and how can it lose its existence?
Parmenides
Like honey that penetrates all parts of a bee's honeycomb, God penetrates throughout the universe and is within the universe.
Zeno of Elea
God is a spirit spread in all the universe particles, and the human spirit is but a spark of it.
Gleanthes
God is the face of the universe and creator of its existence and the help of the creation.
Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides)
It is an existence not by accident and an entity that will not perish. It is with everything but not associated with anything; it is everything but not in a disunited manner.
Nahj al-Balagha
God, the universe of existence, and nature are united and non-polarity essence.
Baroch Spinoza
There is nothing in the universe but wisdom. God is the absolute wisdom that is manifesting within creatures.
Heikel
There are essential and eternal principles in the wisdom that their verities are detached from us and cannot be interpreted as a part of the absolute existence.
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet - François Fénelon
Even though the absolute does not appear in us except only via a necessity that forces us to move forward, this necessity is not ours; because it is higher than us.
Nicolas Malebranche
Aristotle believes that the universe is old and believes that it is as old as God almighty Himself. Such duality and acknowledging two aspects and beliefs will not yield unity.
Avicenna believes that the universe is old, but an old universe filled instantly by God's will. He believes that the first mind was initially given, then the second mind, and so on.
Al-Farabi argues that the absolute existence of the universe is of its essence, and the wisdom of this knowledge is the first mind. Therefore, the minds have emerged from two effects of stationary planets between the first motion and the existing universe.
The universe had not been in this current state in the beginning. There exist no contradictions between the oldness of God's will and the accidents in the universe.
Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustinus)
Objects were created because God was with them.
Avicenna
Creation is not a composition from the old, but as the manifestation of God's essence without a beginning, and it is necessary.
Spinoza
Avicenna believes that the definition of mind is divided into three categories: a talented mind, an intuitive mind, and a learning mind. Which one may achieve by making progress at each level.
Al-Farabi believed in the first beginning and first mind and second mind and first sky and other skies.
There exist two stages in the universe. One is the stage of absolute wisdom, and the other is the initial material elements.
Plato
The mover of everything is God. He is the creator of the universe.
Aristotle and many more philosophers of the ancient times
God is the origin of everything.
Christian philosophers
The connection between God and the elements happens by wisdom or word.
Philo
It is permissible that God has created objects from nothingness. The skies are nine-fold, not more, not less.
Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides)
Al-Farabi said: the existence of aseity is the cause for all objects, and it needs to be the most perfect of all.
Avicenna believes in quadruple aseity. However, their existence was not in essence. Instead, they become peremptory when they came in pairs.
When fire and firewood come together, flames are the result.
Philosophers of old times divided existence into essential (aseity), possible, and impossible.
When witnessed the skies that seemed conquered by the earth, Averroes (Ibn Rushd) realized that all beings were invented. In other words, they did not exist and came into being by some entity.
God's essence creates changes in objects while there are no changes in the essence of God.
Henri Bergson
There exists a Unity between cause and effect in nature. If not, then the effect of wisdom on the body and the spirit on the elements cannot be accepted.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
There exists no “possible absolute” in the universe. As mandated by the essentialities of the divine nature, the existence of objects and their function is indispensable.
Spinoza
If we consider the universe firm and rigid, it is as if we have denied acknowledging the attention of God towards it.
Newton