Criticism of the Ash'arites Theory on the Uncreatedness of Positive Attributes of God based on the Foundations of Transcendental Wisdom

Abstract

Divine attributes and their relation to essence is one of the most fundamental theological issues in the Islamic world that the Qur'anic verses in this regard have led to its emergence among Muslim thinkers. Meanwhile, the Ash'arites believe that the divine positiveattributes are different fromessence and uncreated in time, and they have various arguments due to comparing the present with the absent, to carry attributeson each other and on divine essence, and on the uncreated essence of God. These arguments seem to be fallacious. Because the problem of the reasons for the first part is the lack of a comprehensive commonality between the two sides of the comparison, namely the uncreated and created being. The reference of attributes to one another and to the essence also implies the extensionalobjectivity and their conceptual difference, not the uncreatedness and the differences. The uncreatedness of God also requires the revoke of Mu’tazilite theory on the createdness of attributes, and it hasnothing to do with theiruncreatedness and differences