Posts made in May 28th, 2010

Ash'ari Misconception: the Dhahir of the Texts Promote Anthropomorphism

Posted by Abu Bakr on May 28, 2010 in Advaned Topics in Asmaa wa Sifaat

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.”