Some Muʿtazilī and other theological accounts speak of a newly occurring will. An objection is raised: if eternal will concerns an originated act, why does the act not exist eternally?
The central response distinguishes the eternality of the will from the effect's occurrence at a specified time. The later realization of an object does not entail that the will specifying its time first arose then.
A statement such as “this event will occur at a given time” can have a determined temporal content without itself being uttered at that later time. This analogy clarifies the logic of temporal reference; it does not equate divine knowledge and will with ordinary human reports.