Why isn't the necessary being the universe?

Well it's good that you said that, because it first shows that you acknowledge that we need to have a necessary. This applies to the universe and we say that this contradicts our saying that it is a necessary being because it has to be an independent, self-sufficient and necessary being, the universe is not self-sufficient and not self-reliant, on the contrary, it means it cannot be, because it contradicts what we said.

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