Abstract

Muslim philosophers and scholastic theologians have long argued about temporal Being and Eternity of the Universe.Based on Trans-substantial Motion, Mulla Sadra reiterates that "The Universe with everything in it is temporally contingent because everything in it has been non - existent in time."According to Trans-substantial Motion, all beings are essentially changing i.e., universe is a constant contingency and its existence lies in its non-existence in time. Therefore, it did not exist before and later became existent. In the pre-existent world, there has been no time. There is no beginning point for the creation of the universe and there is no need to postulate a beginning point as such. Because the entire universe is constantly contingent and the contingencies never meet in one certain point.Mulla Sadra says the physical universal is equal to its components and since its components are contingent, it too would be contingent.