Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

The distinction concerns ontological dependence: what is possible does not explain its own existence and needs a cause, while what is necessary in itself receives existence from no other source. Causal priority need not be temporal; an eternal effect can remain dependent in this model. ^[1]

This philosophical reconstruction has its own arguments, rather than literally transferring AristotleAristotleGreek philosopher whose concepts of actuality, soul and motion were reinterpreted in later religious traditions.Glossary · Click to read the explanation or prescribing a position for every Islamic school. Establishing a first principle should be separated from further theological accounts of attributes and providence. The diagram explains necessity and dependence without turning concepts into a timeline or depicting the person.