| And you know that he is not like physical bodies, and that it is not possible for him to get up or down, move about, change, be composite, have a form, limbs and body members | And you know that he was and is eternally all-powerful and that impotence is not possible for him |
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| If this being is all-wise, then his very act of creation cannot be haphazard or in vain | As the number of Muslims increased throughout the , and in reaction to the excesses of this newly imposed rationalism, theologians began to lose ground |
The persecution campaign, nonetheless, cost them their theology and generally, the sympathy of the Muslim masses in the Abbasid state.
17| Theological Approaches to Quranic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis | In the above quote, Justice 'Abd al-Jabbar emphatically mentioned that if there are two possible interpretations, both capable of resolving the apparent contradiction created by literal understanding of a verse, then the interpretation closer to the literal meaning should take precedence, for the relationship between the interpretations, close and distant, becomes the same as the literal understanding and the interpretation |
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| , Kitab al-Intisar, Beirut, 1957, p | Thus every immoral thing that happens in the world must be a human act, for God transcends doing immoral acts |
Rationalism in Exegesis: A Study of the Problem of Metaphor in the Writing of the Mutazilites 4 ed.
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