Refutation of the Ashariyyah Aqidah
Refutation of the Ashariyyah Aqidah Aqidah: Ash’ari beliefs: 1. Divine timelessness i.e. that Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَىٰ does not perform new sequential actions Himself. 2. Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَىٰ acts without motive or wisdom behind His acts as they believe if Allah was acting to fulfill a purpose then He would have been previously imperfect as He would be in need of something. 3. Metaphorical interpretations of Allah’s actions and attributes in order to avoid anthropomorphism. 4. Occasionalism i.e. the belief that God is the only true cause and that what we perceive as causes and effects in the world are merely occasions for God’s direct intervention. They deny that created entities have any intrinsic causal power or secondary causation. In other words, God creates the cause and the effect at each moment independent of the material 5. objects that seem to be involved. 6. Morality is arbitrarily based on Allah’s سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَىٰ will i.e. absolu