Causality Broken – Synthesizing Religion, Philosophy and Modern Physics, Confirming al-GhazÉlÊ’s Win in the Debate of the World’s PreEternity by Proving Delay in Effect

Abstract

The central issue of ImÉm Al-GhazÉlÊ’s book ‘the incoherence of philosophers’ (TaÍÉfut al-FalÉsifah) concerning the world’s pre-eternity rotates around the cause and effect. According to philosophers once all necessary condition for a cause are fulfilled, its effect cannot be delayed by necessity. On the contrary, according to Islamic theologians, it is not necessary. After 800 years, creation unveiled mysteries in its form, which both the parties (Philosophers and theologians) did not know. However, who won the debate over world’s pre-eternity is still undecided. This paper will try to fill that gap by providing a new proposal which synthesizes Religion, Philosophy and modern science by proving that ImÉm al-GhazÉlÊ’s proposition was correct: i.e., The delay in effect in presence of a cause is possible. It will be established using these three different domains of universe supporting each other. Discussion on modern science will provide new insights on some of the core results of scientific theories, which have not been considered yet.