A second line of reasoning draws on God’s describing Himself as Creator. If divine speech is eternal, the question arises: how can the eternal attribution be true if the underlying description only becomes real later?
One response interprets Creator as one who has the power to create; the name may then be used before any created thing exists. Defenders of takwīn as a distinct reality reply that capacity and the actual principle of creating remain conceptually different.
The eternal truth of the description, the temporal existence of the creature, and the meaning of the name are distinct questions.