Anas al-Tawhid in the Interpretation of the Verse of Justice and Monotheism Journal Article

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Al-Taftazani said: Meaning, in His saying: ﴿إنّ الدّین عند اللّه الاسلام﴾ with the meaning he mentioned, it indicates that whoever goes towards anthropomorphism, such as the corporealists (Mujassimah) and those who attribute [attributes] to the Throne, or towards what leads to anthropomorphism, such as those who say the vision of Him is permissible—for that leads to Him being a body or an accident within a space and direction, since the seen object can only be thus—or whoever goes towards predestination (jabr), meaning compelling [humans] to actions by force, such as those who say that He commands His servants, forbids, rewards, and punishes, even though their actions are by His pure power and will without any influence from them; and this is pure injustice and is not upon the religion of Islam, because anthropomorphism and what leads to it undermine monotheism, and predestination undermines justice. And if the matter is as we have described, then it is inevitable that the apparent meanings of the verses used as evidence by the Justice-oriented (al-Adliyyah) to support them with rational proofs, and the diversion of the verses grasped by the Ash'arites due to their contradiction with the proofs of the Justice-oriented, as established in the fundamental books and explicitly stated by al-Qadi al-Armawi from the Shafi'is in the discussion of the transcendence of Allah, the Exalted, from direction and corporeality, where he said in his essence: "That when the transmitted apparent meanings (al-zawahir al-naqliyyah) contradict rational proofs, it is impossible to either believe or deny them; thus, it becomes necessary to believe the intellect and delegate the knowledge of transmission to Allah, the Exalted, and to engage in the interpretation (ta'wil) of the apparent meanings.