لِاسْتِحَالَةِ قِيَامِ الْحَوَادِثِ بِذَاتِهِ
Because originated accidents cannot subsist in His essence.
If knowledge or life were first absent and later present, the divine essence would undergo a change from lacking a perfection to possessing it. Such acquisition suggests a prior deficiency or dependence, both rejected of the Necessary Existent.
The argument does not deny that new events occur in creation. It denies equating created occurrences with new intrinsic states arising in the eternal divine essence.