mehdi azadparvr
Abstract
Understanding the divine attributes and clarifying their meaning accurately has always been one of the challenges of Islamic thinkers. Through distinguishing between concept and instance, Mulla Sadra tried to devise a method through which he could foreground the cognitivity of divine attributes without ...
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Understanding the divine attributes and clarifying their meaning accurately has always been one of the challenges of Islamic thinkers. Through distinguishing between concept and instance, Mulla Sadra tried to devise a method through which he could foreground the cognitivity of divine attributes without making them equal to creatures’ attributes. From Mulla Sadra’s point of view, God’s attributes like knowledge, power, eternal-living and agency are similar to existence as a universal fact which applies to all beings. In some passages, Mulla Sadra denies the conceptual synonymy of the divine attributes, and in some others, he accepts it. This difference can be attributed to the oneness and unity of God, the Almighty. According to Mulla Sadra in relation to God’s predicative attributes, one should pay attention to the essence of meaning. This method, which is the method of science advocates, does not lead to meaning interpretation of the verses of the Qur'an and does not contradict the form of the verses. It, in fact, complements the literal meaning.
hamid imandar; hamed mostafavi fard
Volume 17, Issue 2 , January 0, , Pages 73-96
Abstract
One of the constitutive elements of the Salafist School is its approach to God’s attributes. The Salafist unique interpretation which is presented as the school of proof for attributes lacks compatibility with forefathers’ views in addition to its being extremely dogmatic. Extreme dogmatism ...
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One of the constitutive elements of the Salafist School is its approach to God’s attributes. The Salafist unique interpretation which is presented as the school of proof for attributes lacks compatibility with forefathers’ views in addition to its being extremely dogmatic. Extreme dogmatism has provided opportunities for the opponents to satirize Salafist views. The present article aims at examining Alusi’s approach to interpretation in terms of its adherence to the Salafi School. In his opposition to the Salafist School of proof, Alusi takes side with the approach of delegating the meaning of attributes to the forefathers’ generally accepted views and rejects the manifest meanings due to the corrupted requirements like incarnation. He also agrees with the popular interpretation of attribute verses upon which there is unanimous agreement. The authors take the view that Alusi’s interpretation of narrated attributes do not show any affinities with the Salafist interpretations but they are rather in agreement with the latest Ash’ariyyah theological school of thought. However, it should be mentioned that his liberalistic theology and jurisprudence has had a minor effect on the distinctions in this field.
