Can there be a beginning without an end?

Can there be a beginning without an end?

No—wherever there has been a beginning there must be an end. Cast your eyes over the surface of the globe and you will find that all you see had a beginning. The mighty mountain towering aloft whose snow-capped pinnacles pierce the clouds—you know that it had a beginning. Well—let me suppose you had seen that mountain and its rugged outlines when you were but a boy and you live on to old age—you examine it then and you find that it has been wasting away—that decay during all these years has been going on—the old features impressed on your youthful mind have to some extent passed away and new ones appear. 

And this process is forever going on throughout all Nature. 

Change—a continual change. In man, too, in his material state, there is a beginning and an end—a continual change in his body, as in all material things. But in regard to man as a spirit, no one can tell when he began to be. Why? Because that inner man is Divine, the offspring of God, who ever was and ever shall be without beginning, without end.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia