What you must believe about your Creator - Kalamullah.Com

affirming His Attributes say, "Allah is Samee (All-Hearing) without aHearing, He is Baseer (All-Seeing) without sight.' This is well-knownin the Mu'tazilah Madhhab.The third group affirms the Names of Allah and some Attributes.They affirm seven attributes and negate all the others, and thoseseven Attributes are: (i) Life, (ii) Knowledge, (iii) Power, (iv) Hearing,(v) Sight, (vi) Will and (vii) Speech.As-Safaraanee gathered them in his saying,"He has life, Speech and Sight, Hearing,Will, Knowledge and Power..."Those who affirm the Names and some Attributes of Allah (i.e., thethird group) argue, "We affirm these Attributes because (only) theseattributes are approved by the intellect while the rest are notapproved by the intellect, so we do not affirm them.(Intellectual proofs of the third group are;)The existing creation proves that it was originated. Its originproves power (to originate) because there cannot beorigination without power. This is an intellectual proof (forAllah's Attribute of Power).Choice proves Will - i.e. (the choice/will) to make the sun, themoon, the sky and the earth. All this proves the Will of theirCreator, Who Willed that these things should be as they are.This is also an intellectual proof (for Allah's Attribute of Will)If we look into the creation, we find it to be a perfectlycoherent creation. Coherence proves knowledge because anignorant cannot create coherence.- 47 -