As long as there is any weakness in a being...

As long as there is any weakness in a being, it will be necessarily caused and will need essentially a more complete being without any independence on a cause. a.2- Different degrees of existence, with the exception of the highest degree that has infinite completeness and absolutely no need and is independent, are just dependency and relation.

If that highest degree was not a real existent and did not have truth, then the other degrees would not exist at all; because if it is supposed that they exist without existence of highest degree, it would imply that those degrees one independent and have no need; whereas their existential character is just copulation, dependency and need. b: M.

Motahhary (1921-1981) in another interpretation of the argument has explained the rest of the argument as follow3: b.1- The truth and reality of existence does not accept non-existence. An existent being in so far as it is an existent being will never be non-existence. Likewise nonexistence 4 in so far as it is non-existence will never be existence. The truth of becoming non-existence in existent beings is the limitation of special existences.

It does not mean that existence accepts non-existence which is its contradiction. Non-existence is not a real thing; we comprehend the meaning of non-existence by comparing one degree of existence or its limitations with another degree and its limitations. This is a relative matter. b.2- The truth of existence without any respect, relation and dependency that may limit and condition it, is equal to perfection, absoluteness, rich, intensity, actuality, unlimited-ness and glory.

But, all of deficiency, weakness, conditionality, poverty, possibility, limitation and determination are not from the essence of existence, but from non-existences that are the result of being caused. A being, in so far as it is a limited existence and joined to non-existence, has these qualifications, all of which arise from non existence. The pure truth of existence is opposite to non-existence; the circumstances of non-existence are outside the pure truth of existence and are negated by it.

b.3- The pure truth of existence exists, because it is just existent; non-existence is absurd for it. The truth of existence in its essence, i.e. in being existent and in its reality, is not conditioned by any nor does it depend on any stipulation.