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Summary of Sunni concepts

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Ash'ari interpretation of attributes

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The Ash'ari interpret the names and attributes of God as one of the seven attributes that they established for God through reason

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They are life, knowledge, ability, will, hearing, sight, and speech

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Most of what they do is interpret any other attribute other than those seven attributes

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Either by ability or by will

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If they do not find the interpretation acceptable, they resort to delegation

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That is, delegating the intended meaning of the attribute to God Almighty and ceasing to explain its meaning

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They justify this by claiming that God Almighty is above the resemblance of created beings

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According to them, exaltation comes in one of two ways: interpretation or delegation

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Their speaker says so

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And every text is an illusion or a simile or a metaphor or a metaphor for its purification