LessonsThe Attribute of Takwīn: Reality, Eternity, Created Effects and RelationsQuiz

Creation, giving life, causing death, forming, and providing concern different objects and effects. In one case life begins, in another death occurs, in another form is specified, and in another sustenance is provided.

These may be understood as different relations of one attribute of takwīn: relating to life → giving life; to death → causing death; to form → forming; to sustenance → providing.

Each new effect’s origination is not the recurring origination of the underlying attribute. This distinction prepares the later analysis of how divine will specifies possible things.

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One takwīn, multiple specifications

The Attribute of Takwīn: Reality, Eternity, Created Effects and Relations

Creation, giving life, causing death, forming, and providing concern different objects and effects. In one case life begins, in another death occurs, in another form is specified, and in another sustenance is provided.

These may be understood as different relations of one attribute of takwīn: relating to life → giving life; to death → causing death; to form → forming; to sustenance → providing.

Each new effect’s origination is not the recurring origination of the underlying attribute. This distinction prepares the later analysis of how divine will specifies possible things.