The Creator must be of a different nature from the things created because if he if of the same nature as they are, he will be temporal and will therefore need a maker. It follows that nothing is like Him. If the maker is not temporal, then he must be eternal. But if he is eternal, he cannot be caused, and if nothing outside him causes him to continue to exist, which means that he must be self-sufficient. And if the does not depend on anything for hte continuance of his own existence, then this existence can have no end. The creator is therefore eternal and everlasting: "He is the First and the Last." He is Self-Sufficient or Self-Subsistent or, to use a Quranic term, Al-Qayyum. The Creator does not create only in the sense of bringing things into being, He also preserves them and takes them out of existence and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to ehm."God Is the Creator of everything. He is the guardian over everything. Unto Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. No creature is there crawling on the earth, but its provision rests on God. He knows its lodging place and it repository...
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