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Originally Posted by al Furqaan
I didn't get that. I'm don't see why my existence in the present indicates that the past must have started at some finite time.
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For al Furqan to come into existence, your parents had to exist.
Let
Event 1 = Al Furqan coming to existence
Event 2 = Events that caused Al-Furqan's birth
Event 1 caused by Event 2
Event 2 caused by Event 3
Event 3 caused by Event 4
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Event
∞ -1 caused by Event
∞
Event
∞ caused by Event
∞ +1
But
∞ -1 =
∞ +1 =
∞
As you see, this is leading to absurdity.
Since there must be a cause for anything to come into existence, the past causes cannot be infinite. If that is infinite, then the present cannot exist.
Thus there must be an uncaused cause, and that is God. For God never came into existence, He always existed and He will.
This is the summary of Surah Ikhlaas:
Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One,
Allah, the Eternal Refuge.
He neither begets nor is born,
Nor is there to Him any equivalent."
The third verse says that God always existed, which means He is uncaused, and He caused everything.