Imam Mūsā-al-Kāzim (as) & the Refutation of Divine Mobility

In refutation of the notion of divine mobility Imam Mūsā-al-Kāzim (as) is reported to have stated the following:
"وکل متحرک مھتاج الی من يحرکہ او يتحرک بہ، فمن ظن بللہ الظنون ھلک"
translation: "Every mobile object is always in need of a stimulus [mover] by and through which it comes into action (thus to think that Allāh descends is to think Him mobile and in need of a stimulus). Thus, whoever guessed in such a way in respect of Allāh met his doom" [Al-Kafi,kitab-ul-tawhid,hadith#325]
Motion [ھرکت] is the transition of a thing from potentiality [قوۃ] to actuality [فعلليۃ], but a thing in potentiality cannot actualize [بالفعل] itself, which is to say that a moving thing or a thing in motion cannot move itself, because a thing cannot give to itself what it does not possess or have, therefore an object lacking actuality cannot actualize itself, and is hence in need of another for becoming actualized as is stated by the Imam (as) "Every mobile object is always in need of a stimulus [mover] by and through which it comes into action" ; now that other must be a thing in actuality otherwise it would be incapable of imparting actuality to the thing in potentiality. Now if God is supposed to be something mobile [متحرک] so He too would be in need of a mover [محرک] for the transition from a state of potentiality towards a state of actuality, and every need or dependence [اھتياج] implies a lacking or deficiency [نقص] in that which bears such need, and this is contradictory to the idea of a Being that is Absolute Perfection [خير مطلق] itself. Actuality is synonymous with goodness [خير] and perfection [کمال], such that a movement towards an actuality is a movement towards an absent good or perfection, because there can be no motion towards that which is already possessed; but since God is the Ultimate-Good therefore no good can be conceived to be absent from Him in fact every good flows from Him, hence the Ultimate-Good does not move towards anything and is instead that towards whom all things move.

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