Document Type : Original Article
Author
shirazu
Abstract
One of the most fundamental theological issues among Islamic thinkers is the discussion of divine attributes and their relationship with essence. In the meantime, the Ash'are believe that God's proven attributes are superfluous to the essence and the old, and they provide numerous proofs from the aspects of comparing the present with the absent, carrying the attributes on each other, and the divine nature and the oldness of God's essence. It seems that these arguments have many fallacies; Because the form of the reasons of the first part is the lack of common ground between the two sides of the analogy, i.e. the old being and the accident; Carrying attributes over each other and essence also indicates their objectivity and conceptual difference, not being old and redundant; The oldness of God's essence also requires the refutation of the Mu'tazila theory about the accidental nature of attributes, and it has nothing to do with their oldness and redundancy. Most of these arguments disprove the Mu'tazila theory about the accidental nature of divine attributes, but they are unable to prove both the results desired by the Ash'ari, i.e. the antiquity and the superfluity of the attributes on the essence or one of them. In this article, we will critically examine the opinions of Ash'are according to the principles of Molashmasa Gilani.
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