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RESEARCH ARTICLE

The Obligatory-Arbitrariness Contradiction in God's Actions About Man-The Debate Between the Mu'tazilites and the Ash'aris a Methodological Critique-

MAHSUM AYTEPE1
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1 Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi, İslami İlimler Fakültesi, Temel İslam Bilimleri Bölümü 49250, Muş, Türkiye
BIJP 2023, 13(2), 191–210; https://doi.org/10.29228/beytulhikme.65746
Received: 15 August 2022 | Published online: 15 May 2023
© 2023 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

One of the main debates among the sects of creed is the problem of how to define the meaning, which is the basis for the realization of divine acts, when it comes to human actions related to religion. The Mu'tazila believed that when man does deeds in accordance with religion, God must also do actions to support this, and they reached the idea of "necessity"; The Ash'arites, on the other hand, believed that God is not obligated to anything, regardless of the reason, and adopted an approach that could be understood as "arbitrariness". In our opinion, the main reason why religious sects are positioned at two extremes on a certain issue, even if they are within the same belief paradigm, is sectarian solidarity, which is backed by political, cultural and social factors. The natural result of sectarian solidarity is the weakness shown in dealing with the provisions of the Qur'an on the subject in its entirety. In this study, firstly, the thoughts of Mu'tazilites and Ash'arites about the divine actions that take place in relation to the religious deeds of man will be briefly discussed, and then the approach of the Qur'an on this subject will be given. We think that the conceptual framework we propose to determine the approach of the Qur'an on this issue is functional in preserving the integrity that is ignored due to sectarian reflexes. We think that the conceptual framework we propose to determine the approach of the Qur'an on this issue is functional in preserving the integrity that is ignored due to sectarian reflexes.

Keywords
Aslah theory
taklif
Mu'tazila
Ash'arism
Qur’an.
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