Summary of Sunni concepts
Semi-negative adjectives and the response to them
The invalid claims that the attributes of God Almighty are denied
They are only exalting God Almighty and uniting Him with this denial
Their similarity in this is that proving the attribute
It requires likening God to His creatures
Because we do not know the attribute of existence except for creatures
If we prove it to God Almighty
We likened Him to His creatures
The answer to this is that it is not necessary in any case to prove the attribute by analogy
Rather, we affirm the attribute of the Creator without likening it to the attribute of the creature
The creatures themselves share some characteristics
And they are not similar
Man has a hand and animals have a hand
There is a difference between the two hands, and they are created things
Rather, the common value between the attributes exists only in the mind
Without the reality and truth of the matter
How about the Creator who is distinct from his creatures in all his attributes?
Which is all perfection and majesty
Secondly
Their claim is that there are multiple attributes
It leads to the statement of multiple selves
Because if we prove the attributes of God
She would have been as old as him
This leads to the statement of the multiplicity of ancients
It contradicts monotheism
The answer to that is that it is nonsense and delirium
The attributes of God Almighty exist in Himself
And not alone
They are attributes of majesty and perfection of one essence
Third
As for the Ash'aris, they affirmed that God has only seven attributes and not the rest
They fell into contradiction
Both the Sunnis and the Mu'talla responded to them
By proving these seven qualities
Which you say the mind indicated
It traps you into the alleged analogy that you claim to escape from
Each of these qualities has been confirmed by God for Himself in His Noble Book
He has proven it to other of His creatures
Although the exact nature of its nature differs
God Almighty described Himself with power and said:
God is powerful over everything
He described some of the creatures with power, saying:
Except those who repented before you gained power over them
They knew that God is Forgiving and Merciful
But we say that God Almighty has true power
It befits His perfection and majesty, Glory be to Him
Creatures also have abilities that are appropriate to their condition, inability, and mortality
There is a difference between the two abilities
Just as there is a difference between the essence of the Creator and the essences of the creatures
And so it is with all the other seven attributes
God Almighty described Himself with will and said:
His command, when He wants something, is to say to it, “Be,” and it is
He described some creatures with will, saying:
You want the offer of this world, but God wants the afterlife
He described Himself, the Almighty, as knowledgeable, and said:
And God is All-Knowing of all things
He described some of the creatures with knowledge, saying:
We give you good news of a knowledgeable boy
He described himself as alive and said:
God, there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Ever-Subsisting
He described some of his creatures as life, saying:
And We made from water every living thing
He described Himself, the Almighty, with hearing and sight, saying:
God is All-Hearing and All-Seeing
He described the created human being as All-Hearing and All-Seeing. He said:
We created man from the sperm of gametes to test him
So We made him All-Hearing and All-Seeing
He described himself in words and said, Glory be to Him
God spoke to Moses specifically
And he said
And when Moses came to Our time and his Lord spoke to him
He described some of the creatures in words, saying:
When he spoke to him, he said, “Today we have a trustworthy person.”
What the Ash'arites claim is that proving the attributes requires simile
They must adhere to the seven qualities that they recognize in their minds
Even if they said that the seven attributes are fixed for God in what befits His majesty and perfection
It is not like the attributes of created beings
We tell them
So you need to generalize this to the question of attributes
Which God confirmed for Himself and His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, confirmed for him
There is no truth to what you claim about the difference between the attributes of the essence and the attributes of meanings
Otherwise, you are contradictory in your prayers
So the bottom line
It is the necessity of proving everything that God has proven to Himself
And what His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, confirmed to him of beautiful names and sublime attributes
It is certain that they are all real characteristics
It befits the majesty and perfection of God Almighty
It differs from the characteristics of created beings that suit their condition, which is not devoid of incapacity
And it is doomed to annihilation
There is a difference between the descriptions of Him, Glory be to Him, and the descriptions of His creatures
It is as between the essence of the Creator and the essences of the created beings, with distinction and difference
Summary of Sunni concepts