The Role of the 'Ma'na' Theory in Hisham ibn al-Hakam's Explanation of the Nature of God's Will مقالة

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The Role of the "Meaning" Theory in Hisham ibn al-Hakam's Explanation of the Nature of God's Will Akbar Aqvam Karbasi* Mohammad Taqi Sobhani** Abstract The formulation of the "meaning" theory is an ontological approach for analyzing and explaining the action and active attributes of God, which the theologians of the Kufa school, especially Hisham ibn al-Hakam, utilized. The theory of "meaning," one of the most prominent major theorizations of the great Kufan theologian Hisham ibn al-Hakam in explaining divine attributes, is what this article attempts to depict, through an implicit analysis of this theory, its role in explaining the nature of God's will. It is reasonable to expect that because of the role that the existence of accidents played in proving the temporal origination (huduth) of the world and consequently proving the Creator in the intellectual system of theologians after the first era, considering movement and stillness as "accidents" was very important (for example, see: Baqillani, 1369, Vol. 1: p. Hisham ibn al-Hakam, the most important theorist of the Kufa school, on this basis, introduced the will of God through "movement" and in explaining this content, he resorted to the theory of "meaning" (ma'na). Because in his view, meaning was placed in a rank other than the essence of God and was considered created and originated; just as the reality of the act was such in the view of the first theologians.