Doctrines of Islam 06 (Cosmological & Ontological Arguments)

Outline

                                                              i.      Cosmological Argument

1.     Two different versions of this Argument in:

2.     Islamic Theology (Kalam Cosmological Argument)

3.      and Islamic Metaphysics (Necessity and Contingency)

4.     Origin of two different versions:

a.      Creation in time vs. Creation of time

b.     Creation Ex nihilo vs. Everlasting creation

5.     Necessity and Contingency

6.     Vicious Circle and Infinite Regress

Qur'an

O mankind! You are the ones who stand in need of God; and God, He is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable. 35:15
God is the All-sufficient, and you are all-needy. 47:38
Everyone in the heavens and the earth asks (needs) Him. 55:29

Webpage

Cosmological Argument - Stanford
Necessary Existence - Wikishia
Avicenna, Proof of the Necessary of Existence pdf

Ontological Argument - Wikishia

Argument of Siddiqin - Wikishia

Book Excerpts
The Argument of Contingency by Rabbani G.

The argument of possibility (imkān) and necessity (wujūb) - Rabbani Golpaygani

Video

Leibniz’ Contingency Argument (Very Similar to that of Avicenna)