Do the people of the Sunnah believe in the existence of previous universes and created beings before the creation of the Pen and the writing of the decrees?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it the creed of the people of the Sunnah and the community that there are previous universes and created beings before the creation of the Pen and the writing of the decrees?

Answer:
Allah knows best about this. However, the Pen is the first of the created things. The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and He said to it, "Write." This is the second opinion. The first opinion is that the first of the created things is the Throne. The first of the created things is the Throne, and this is the stronger position, which Ibn al-Qayyim preferred in *al-Nuniyyah*. For this reason, he said: "People differ regarding the Pen with which the decree was written by the Judge: was it before the Throne or after it? There are two opinions according to Abu al-‘Ala al-Hamadhani." The truth is that the Throne was before it, because at the time of the writing, it had pillars, and the Throne existed at the time of the writing. But his statement, "The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and He said to it, 'Write,'" means that Allah said to the Pen, "Write," as the first thing He created the Pen. So the priority is for the writing, not for the existence. Yes.