Know that ...

a creator without a creature is impossible, a provider without those provided for cannot be conceived; for all the divine names and attributes demand the existence of beings.

If we could imagine a time when no beings existed, this imagination would be the denial of the Divinity of God.

Moreover, absolute non-existence cannot become existence.

If the beings were absolutely non-existent, existence would not have come into being.
Therefore, as the Essence of Unity, that is the existence of God, is everlasting and eternal--that is to say, it has neither beginning nor end--it is certain that this world of existence ...
has neither beginning nor end....