Invalidating the passivity of the First Agent

According to the Philosophers a Necessary Being in Itself واجب بالذات must be necessary from all aspects واجب بالذات واجب من جمیع الجحات; this is because not being necessary from even a single aspect would render God a composite مرکب of necessity وجوب from certain aspects, and possibility امکان or impossibilityامتناع from the aspect in which it is not necessary; and every composite is dependent upon its parts اجزاء and hence necessary through another واجب بالغیر; and that which is necessary through another is contingent in essence ممکن بالذات and cannot simultaneously be Necessary in Itself; but if God existed without the world existing with Him, then He was not an Agent in actuality فاعل بالفعل because there was no actual effect in existence; but He was an Agent in potentiality فاعل بالقوہ since it was possible for Him to create the world; this renders God or the Necessary Being, a composite of actuality or necessity from the other aspects and potentiality or possibility from the aspect of being an Agent; but this would render Him necessary through another and dependent upon its parts; and consequently a contingent being; now the aspect in which it is possible or potential in essence; it is dependent upon an extraneous factor for converting the possibility into a necessity or for the actualization of the potential; this would render God a recipient or patient of external influence; and that which is influenced is inferior in existence from that which causes the influence; but this leads to a contradiction since the First Cause علت اولا or the Necessary Being is the Noblest and the Greatest of all realities and hence cannot be inferior to anything; moreover, that which receives an influence is essentially posterior to that which administers or causes the influence, and this also amounts to a contradiction since the Necessary Being in Itself by reason of being the cause of all existence must be prior to all things.

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