Responding to a popular claim of the Mujasima, who argue that reason has no place in religion, and that rationalizing theology is contrary to what revelation teaches.
Emergent Essences Exist Contingently
Emergent essences exist contingently. In other words, whatever comes into existence, acquired its existence from an essence extrinsic to it.
The Divine Attributes
God is the necessary being who brought the set of all emergent beings into existence. This entails His being attributed with all necessary qualities. This article is dedicated to identifying some of those qualities.
Whatever Can Come to an End, Must have a Beginning
If an essence can cease to exist, then this essence must have emerged into existence. This is because the existence of this essence can be neither necessary, nor impossible. Which means its existence must be contingent. And all contingent essences are emergent.
The Impossibility of Tasalsul
Tasalsul is the belief that time is beginningless. Meaning: that the present is preceded by an infinite number of past events. It is impossible due to its being contradictory.
Keys to the Unseen 