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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al Baik" data-source="post: 30154800" data-attributes="member: 326965"><p>Avicenna's argument for the existence of a necessary being from his work "Burhan Al Siddiqin" (Proof of the Truthful), focusing on the topic of contingent beings and their dependencies:</p><h2>Avicenna's Argument from Contingency</h2><p>Avicenna begins by noting that something undoubtedly exists. He then argues that every existing thing is either:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Necessary by itself</strong> (wajib al-wujud bi-dhatihi) - its existence is necessary and cannot not exist</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>Possible by itself</strong> (mumkin al-wujud bi-dhatihi) - its existence is contingent and could either exist or not exist</li> </ol><p>Avicenna argues that if everything were contingent, it would require an explanation outside itself for its existence. This is because a contingent being, by definition, does not have existence as part of its essence - its essence is indifferent to existing or not existing.For a contingent being to exist, it requires something else to actualize its potential to exist. This actualizing cause cannot itself be contingent, otherwise it would require its own cause, leading to an infinite regress which Avicenna argues is impossible.Therefore, Avicenna concludes, the chain of contingent beings must ultimately terminate in a being that exists necessarily by its own essence - a Necessary Existent (wajib al-wujud). This Necessary Existent cannot not exist and does not depend on anything else for its existence. It is the ultimate explanation and cause of all contingent beings.</p><h2>Contingent Beings and Their Dependencies</h2><p>Avicenna argues that a contingent being is nothing but need and dependence. It cannot be real without something else on which it depends for its existence. Since every contingent being is needy and dependent, the thing on which it depends cannot itself be contingent.It must be an independent being without need for anything else. This is the Necessary Existent. Therefore, all contingent beings point to and depend upon the existence of the Necessary Existent.Avicenna formulates the argument as follows:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Something undoubtedly exists (the contingent world)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Every existing thing is either necessary or contingent</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If everything were contingent, it would require an explanation outside itself</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">An infinite regress of contingent causes is impossible</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Therefore, the chain of contingents must end in a Necessary Existent</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This Necessary Existent is the ultimate explanation and cause of all contingent beings</li> </ol><p>In summary, Avicenna argues that the existence of contingent, dependent beings necessarily points to and requires the existence of a single, independent Necessary Existent which is the ultimate ground and cause of all that is. This Necessary Existent is what we mean by God.</p><p>Rewrite</p></blockquote><p></p>

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