Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (479) | The Ash'aris are the most famous people who knew about interpretation in the faith
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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The Ash'aris are the most famous of those known for employing metaphorical interpretation (ta'wil) in matters of creed.
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Among the most prominent of those who resorted to metaphorical interpretation in creed,
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are the Ash'aris, and the motivation behind their doing so
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is their belief in the possibility of a conflict between reason and revealed text,
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and their subsequent prioritization of reason, alongside their attempt at a tenuous reconciliation
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between the path of the salaf and that of the Mu'tazilah.
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Thus, they found no way to prevent the implications of the texts without rejecting them,
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except by resorting to metaphorical interpretation,
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which, in its true essence, is a distortion.
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It is a flawed intellectual escape from committing to the texts and their clear implications,
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and a means to rid themselves of what they perceive as a conflict between those texts and reason.
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.