the details of the doctrine the philosophers differed about the eternity of the world. the opinion of the majority of them both ancient and modern settled on the saying of its eternity and that it has always existed with god almighty and was caused by him and brought to him not delayed from him in time as the effect is parallel to the cause and as light is parallel to the sun and that the precedence of the creator over it is like the precedence of the cause over the effect and it is a precedence in essence and rank not in time. it was narrated from plato that he said the world is created and created. then some of them from the beginning of his speech refused that the creation of the world was believed in it. galen at the end of his life in the book that he called what galen believes in opinion went to stop on this issue. and he does not know whether the world is eternal or created. and perhaps
تفصيل المذهب اختلفت الفلاسفة في قدم العالم. فالذي استقر عليه رأي جماهيرهم المتقدمين والمتأخرين القول بقدمه وأنه لم يزل موجودا مع الله تعالى ومعلولا له ومسوقا له غير متأخر عنه بالزمان مساوقة المعلول للعلة ومساوقة النور للشمس، وأن تقدم الباري عليه كتقدم العلة على المعلول، وهو تقدم بالذات والرتبة لا بالزمان. وحكي عن أفلاطن أنه قال العالم مكون ومحدث. ثم منهم من أول كلامه وأبى أن يكون حدث العالم معتقدا له. وذهب جالينوس في آخر عمره في الكتاب الذي سماه ما يعتقده جالينوس رأيا إلى التوقف في هذه المسألة. وأنه لا يدري العالم قديم أو محدث. وربما