Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 PhD student of Quran and Hadith Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate Professor of Tarbiat Modares University, Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor of Quran and Hadith Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University
4 Associate Professor, Department Qur’ān and Ḥadīth Studies, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
Abstract
The Narrated Attributes of "love", "pleasure" and "anger", which are used for God in the Quran and traditions, have created a great doctrinal challenge, because their appearance is consistent with human emotions and leads different schools of thought to disagree. Salafis insist on superficial proof without quality, Ash'arites seek a middle way of proof and interpretation, Mu'tazilites resort to purely figurative interpretation. The need for research arises from contemporary sectarian doubts in cyberspace and Salafi-Shiite scholarly debates, where Salafi proof without quality may lead to the idea of human emotions for God. The existence of such differences threatens the unity of the Ummah. The present study facilitates the scientific dialogue between Islamic schools by conducting a comparative-critical study of the Salafi and Imami views. It aims to compare and evaluate the Salafi and Imami views of hadith interpretation by using an analytical-critical method, while briefly examining the lexical and interpretive views on the attributes under discussion, based on the narrations of both sects. The results of the study show that the Salafi hadith commentators prove that the mentioned attributes are real and apparent for God. Accordingly, love is a true affection accompanied by victory, and contentment is a lasting satisfaction without human qualities. From the perspective of the Salafi commentators, anger is a kind of voluntary punishment of God on servants that is not similar to creation, but the Imami view considers love to be the manifestation of God's pleasure in the satisfaction of His loved ones, and anger means the temporary cessation of God's mercy. As a result, the Imami view, while absolutely excluding God from human attributes, shows greater compatibility with strong Quranic verses, narrations, and rational reasons.
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