Seyyed Hamidreza Raoof
Abstract
Knowledge of God and His attributes offered in the Quran revealed numerous approaches of Simile and purification to Muslims. Understanding and explaining it created earlier theological approaches to simile and purification. The simile and metaphor approach, known as the Ahl-Tashbih since the first ...
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Knowledge of God and His attributes offered in the Quran revealed numerous approaches of Simile and purification to Muslims. Understanding and explaining it created earlier theological approaches to simile and purification. The simile and metaphor approach, known as the Ahl-Tashbih since the first century of Islam, has been associated with multiple variations and then Mqatl Ben Solomon and Mohammed Ben Kram, came to Ibn Taymiyyah to be representatives of the Hanbali in his day. Like the Ahl-Tashbih earlier, Ibn Taymiyya based the work on a literal interpretation of the Quran verses and accompanied this belief by a kind of avoidance of rationality. The hadith Citations of Ibn Taymiyya are also based on the Hadiths spread by only the Ahle Hadith. Accordingly, we can turn to this thought only if: We similarly avoid rationality and God’s transcendental attributes in the Quran; and second, we refer to Hadiths using his approach to get verification. Otherwise, if a person is Sunni, but does not respect the principles of Ibn Taymiyyah, he won’t be able to think like him and believe in what he did.
