Mutazilites Hanbal Asharites Flashcards
Anthropomorphic verses are to be interpreted metaphorically
Mutazilites
Allahs attributes are not distinct (separate) from his essence
Mutazilites
The Quran is uncreated
Hanbal
Allah is obliged (duty-bound) to reward good and punish evil
Mutazilites
The ahadith are authoritative (above human reason)
Hanbal
Allah cannot be seen in Jannah (paradise) in Akhirah (afterlife)
Mutazilites
Who created the Asharites
Al Ashari (died 935 ACE)
Al Asharis teacher
Al-Jubba (Mutazilite scholar)
Al Ashari view on reason and revelation
reason subservient to revelation (helps out)
Who did Ashari influence
Al Ghazali
Where was the Asharites position and what was it called
revealed attributes in between Mutazilites And Hanbal
What did they not affirm or deny
the independence of Allahs attributes
What did Ashari disagree with Mutazilites on?
speech hearing and vision were attributes of action in the Quran (believed they were attributes of essence)
Asharites belief on createdness
Gods speech was not created but the Quran was not Gods speech so the Quran must be created
What would be a contradiction for Asharites
for the quran to be created if it counted as Gods speech (as the Mutazilites believed)
asharites: what are we only aware of through revelation?
good and evil (and not through human reason)
why can’t goodness be discovered through reason? (Asharites)
gods omnipotence would be undermined
asharites: if god is not bound by any independent moral value he could
if he pleased reward good and punish evil
what mutazilite principle did ashari disagree with
god always goes what is better and best for humanity
what did ashari reject
humans have free will
asharites attributes of essence
speech knowledge justice power (these are non physical and real in and of themselves)
asharites attributes of action
hands face shin throne (can interpret, but not metaphors - non human interpretation)
the three brothers
al ashari asked the fate of
one died as a believer
one died as an unbeliever
one died as a child
jubba said the first would go to paradise, second to hell, third neither
al ashari asked why god did not let the second one die as a child if he was doing what was better and best for humanity
