Editing Al-Ghazali (section)

=== ''The Eternity of the World'' ===
Al-Ghazali crafted his rebuttal of the Aristotelian viewpoint on the creation of the world in ''The Eternity of the World''. Al-Ghazali essentially formulates two main arguments for what he views as a sacrilegious thought process. Central to the [[Eternity of the world|Aristotelian]] approach is the concept that motion will always precede motion, or in other words, a force will always create another force, and therefore for a force to be created, another force must act upon that force.<ref name="Griffel-2016" /> This means that in essence time stretches infinitely both into the future and into the past, which therefore proves that [[God]] did not create the universe at one specific point in time. Al-Ghazali counters this by first stating that if the world was created with exact boundaries, then in its current form there would be no need for a time before the creation of the world by God.<ref name="Griffel-2016" />