Mutazilites Hanbal Asharites

Question 1

Anthropomorphic verses are to be interpreted metaphorically

Answer 1

Mutazilites

Question 2

Allahs attributes are not distinct (separate) from his essence

Answer 2

Mutazilites

Question 3

The Quran is uncreated

Answer 3

Hanbal

Question 4

Allah is obliged (duty-bound) to reward good and punish evil

Answer 4

Mutazilites

Question 5

The ahadith are authoritative (above human reason)

Answer 5

Hanbal

Question 6

Allah cannot be seen in Jannah (paradise) in Akhirah (afterlife)

Answer 6

Mutazilites

Question 7

Who created the Asharites

Answer 7

Al Ashari (died 935 ACE)

Question 8

Al Asharis teacher

Answer 8

Al-Jubba (Mutazilite scholar)

Question 9

Al Ashari view on reason and revelation

Answer 9

reason subservient to revelation (helps out)

Question 10

Who did Ashari influence

Answer 10

Al Ghazali

Question 11

Where was the Asharites position and what was it called

Answer 11

revealed attributes in between Mutazilites And Hanbal

Question 12

What did they not affirm or deny

Answer 12

the independence of Allahs attributes

Question 13

What did Ashari disagree with Mutazilites on?

Answer 13

speech hearing and vision were attributes of action in the Quran (believed they were attributes of essence)

Question 14

Asharites belief on createdness

Answer 14

Gods speech was not created but the Quran was not Gods speech so the Quran must be created

Question 15

What would be a contradiction for Asharites

Answer 15

for the quran to be created if it counted as Gods speech (as the Mutazilites believed)

Question 16

asharites: what are we only aware of through revelation?

Answer 16

good and evil (and not through human reason)

Question 17

why can’t goodness be discovered through reason? (Asharites)

Answer 17

gods omnipotence would be undermined

Question 18

asharites: if god is not bound by any independent moral value he could

Answer 18

if he pleased reward good and punish evil

Question 19

what mutazilite principle did ashari disagree with

Answer 19

god always goes what is better and best for humanity

Question 20

what did ashari reject

Answer 20

humans have free will

Question 21

asharites attributes of essence

Answer 21

speech knowledge justice power (these are non physical and real in and of themselves)

Question 22

asharites attributes of action

Answer 22

hands face shin throne (can interpret, but not metaphors - non human interpretation)

Question 23

the three brothers

Answer 23

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