Ash'ari Misconception: the Dhahir of the Texts Promote Anthropomorphism
The Ash’aris have a mistaken notion that the texts of the Qur’an and Sunnah concerning Allah’s Attributes promote anthropomorphism. As explained here, the problem lies only in their anthropomorphic minds.
In any case, they hold that believing in the apparent meanings of such texts is a cause of deviation, in fact, of kufr.
The famous 9th-century Ash’arite theologian, al-Sanusi, states in his Umm al-Barahin that the Usool of Kufr are six. The sixth one he lists is “Adhering to the apparent meanings (zawahir) of the Book and the Sunnah alone in fundamentals of creed without comparing them with rational proofs and definitive shar’i principles.”
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The following incident is a clear proof that the Ash’aris are at odds with the Aqidah of the Salaf and the Imams of Ahl al-Hadith, such as Imam al-Bukhari. It is for this reason that they imprisoned the erudite Hadith scholar, Abul-Jamal al-Mizzi for reading out Khalq Af’al al-’Ibad, a famous creedal work by Imam al-Bukhari:
Al-Razi admits most believe Allah is above the Heavens
The Ash’aris frequently argue that they are the majority of the Ummah, but let us take a look at what one of their greatest Imams, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, had to say in his Ta’wil of the dialogue between Musa, peace be upon him, and Fir’awn:
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