Six attributes from one word: If a being is Wajib al-Wujud — necessary by its own essence — then six attributes follow necessarily. The slide title lists them: Uncaused, One, Infinite, Immaterial, Self-Subsistent, and Eternal.
Unpacked from necessity itself: These are not added on; they are unpacked from the very meaning of necessity. A necessary being cannot have a cause (it needs nothing outside itself); it cannot be two (two necessary beings would limit each other — Topic 11.1); it cannot be finite (a limit would need a cause); it cannot be material (matter is composite and dependent); it cannot depend on anything (it subsists by itself); and it cannot have a beginning or an end (both would need a cause).
One word to a whole theology: This is how Mantiq moves from one word — Wajib — to a whole theology.
Example
Opening a sealed box: Think of it as opening a sealed box: everything inside was already there. "Necessary" already contains "uncaused", "one", "infinite", "immaterial", "self-subsistent", and "eternal" — logic only unpacks what the word already holds.
Key Terms
- Wajib al-Wujud (واجب الوجود) — Necessary Being
- the six attributes as listed
Quran or Hadith
None known from the slide title.
Fresh diagram to be drawn: A "unpacking" diagram: one central node (Wajib al-Wujud) with six attribute branches. To be drawn in Project Desk colours.
Note: Slide 68 was not read; based on the filename. Verify the six attributes and their derivations against the slide before publication.
- If a being is Wajib al-Wujud — necessary by its own essence — then six attributes follow necessarily.
- Think of it as opening a sealed box: everything inside was already there. "Necessary" already contains "uncaused", "one", "infinite", "immaterial", "self-subsistent", and "eternal" — logic only unpacks what the word already holds.