| , An Encyclopedia of World History, rev | Consequently, those in the intermediate position, though in Hell, would have a lesser punishment because of their belief and other good deeds |
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| Beliefs [ ] Part of on• This article needs additional citations for | If a contradiction results from adopting the literal meaning, such as a literal understanding of the "hand" of God that contravenes his transcendence and the Qur'anic mention of his categorical difference from all other things, then an interpretation is warranted |
Divine justice is affirmed through the.
| Hasan answered the person remains a Muslim | William Thomson, "The Moslem World", in William L |
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| On the other hand, the obligation of nazar to other Muslim theologians materializes upon encountering or |
The school worked to resolve the theological "": how to reconcile the justice of an God with the reality of in the world, in accordance with the guidance of the Quran.
6| Therefore, if God is sufficient without need of any unethical thing it necessarily follows that he would not choose the unethical based on his knowledge of its immorality | According to Sarah Siroumsa, "The verb i'tazala means "to withdraw", and in its most common use, as given in the dictionaries and attested in Hadith literature, it denotes some sort of abstinence from sexual activity, from worldly pleasures, or, more generally, from sin |
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| Mu'tazilites reasoned that, since God is believed to be just and wise, and since he cannot command what is contrary to reason or act with disregard for the welfare of His creatures, evil must be regarded as something that stems from errors in human acts, arising from man's divinely bestowed | In their opinion, human reason is not sufficiently powerful to know everything and for this reason humans need revelation in order to reach conclusions concerning what is good and what is bad for them |
Children may suffer, and are observed to suffer, given the nature of life but they are believed to be completely free from sin and liability.
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