The Kalām cosmological argument, developed by al-Kindi and later Aquinas, establishes that an actually infinite regress of prior material causes is logically impossible, requiring an uncaused first cause that produces being from non-being.
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al-Kindi(as a scholar who misidentified the authorship of an important text)
An influential medieval Islamic philosopher (around 801-873 CE) who tried to blend Greek philosophy with Islamic theology and mistakenly thought the Theology of Aristotle was genuinely written by Aristotle.
being from non-being(as the power attributed to the first cause)
The idea of creating something out of nothing, rather than rearranging things that already existed.
logically impossible(as the status of infinite regress according to this argument)
Something that violates basic rules of logic and therefore cannot be true or exist, no matter what.
uncaused first cause(as what the argument concludes must exist)
Something that created everything else but was not itself created by anything—the ultimate beginning that needs no explanation for its own existence.