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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (64) | Exhaustion of qualities

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0:00 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

0:09 Those who negate the divine attributes.

0:12 The deniers of the attributes are those who reject the attributes of Allah the Exalted.

0:17 They are also referred to as the Mu'attilah (the Nullifiers).

0:21 This is because they strip the names of Allah the Exalted of the attributes they entail.

0:26 They are categorized into various degrees in this regard.

0:29 The foremost and most misguided among them are the extremist Jahmiyyah and the philosophers.

0:34 They are those who negate all of Allah’s names and attributes.

0:38 Following them are the Mu'tazilah, who affirm the names for Allah.

0:43 Yet, they negate the attributes that those names entail.

0:47 They say, for instance, that He is All-Knowing without knowledge, and All-Powerful without power.

0:53 To them, these names are merely labels for Allah the Exalted, like the name "Allah" itself.

0:58 The Ash'ariyyah are also grouped with the Mu'attilah, the deniers of the attributes.

1:02 Even though they are less deviant than the others.

1:05 They affirm all the names mentioned in the Qur'an for Allah.

1:10 Yet, they affirm only seven of the attributes that those names entail.

1:15 These are: Power, Will, Knowledge, Life,

1:19 Hearing, Sight, and Speech.

1:21 They claim that reason points to these seven.

1:25 And that the verses of the Qur'an support them.

1:28 As for the other attributes mentioned in the Qur'an,

1:32 They interpret them metaphorically by referring them back to one of these seven attributes.

1:36 This is most often done through the attribute of Will or Power.

1:40 For example, they interpret the anger of Allah as the will to punish.

1:44 The same logic is applied to all other attributes.

1:47 They designate these seven attributes as the "attributes of the Essence."

1:51 In their view, these are attributes without which the Essence of Allah cannot be conceived.

1:56 They designate the remaining attributes as "attributes of meaning."

2:00 These are attributes without which the Essence can be conceived.

2:04 Therefore, they interpret them by referring them back to one of the attributes of the Essence.