ON KINDI’S CONCEPT OF GOD

Kindi essentially adopts the understanding of creation out of nothing (ex nihilo) and struggles to construct a philosophical basis for this understanding in accordance with Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic principles. Kindi regards God’s creation of the universe in the beginning of the time, before which there was nothing as the most plausible explanation of the relationship between God and universe, as well as an object of creed. Kindi develops two interdependent arguments to ground this view philosophically. Firstly, he proves that the universe is finite, considering that it is substance; and so, it has necessarily a starting point within time. The second one that is based on the concept of eternal and the subject of this article proves that there is no eternal being but the Tru