The Mu'tazilah
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المعتزلة · the Muʻtazilah · al-Muʻtazilah · بعض المعتزلة · معتزلياً
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Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The rationalist theological school, named as an epithet applied to the uṣūlī who carries figurative interpretation to its limit.
As for the conventional usage of this name, it varies with the variety of the sects (*al-niḥal*).
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The rationalist theological school, named in order to reject their sense of the fixed (al-thābit).
Be, and it is,' and it is what is fixed in the knowledge of God, exalted be He, not what is 'fixed' according to the Muʻtazilah;
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The theological school whose doctrine that the jinn are subtle bodies is explicitly contradicted.
⟩subtle and that they be dense, contrary to the Muʻtazilah in their saying that they are subtle bodies and that because of their subtlety we do not see them ⟨.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The theological school named as holding spirit and intellect to be accidents.
The doctrine of the people of the Sunnah and the community is that the spirit and the intellect are among the concrete entities and are not two accidents, as the Muʻtazilah and others held;
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The Muʻtazilah, the rationalist theological school named more often than any other party in the creed and contradicted on at least a dozen points: the causation of knowledge, the reality of the attributes, divine speech, will versus good pleasure, the acquirability of prophecy, prophetic sinlessness, the corporeality of the grave's reward, the beatific vision, the present existence of Paradise and Hell, intercession, the servant's creation of his own acts, the efficacy of supplication, the rank of Gabriel, and the place of works in faith.
And the Qurʼān is the speech of God, uncreated — contrary to the Muʻtazilah in their denying the attribute of speech of Him, Most High, and in their claim that the ascription of speech to Him is only because He creates it in that from which the speech issues.
And supplication is of benefit, as the Sunnah has come down concerning it and as the Book has indicated — contrary to the Muʻtazilah, who deny that and interpret away the plain proofs.
and they shall see their Lord in the Garden with their eyes, as has come down in the ḥadīth and as the noble verse has indicated, while holding [Him] free of everything that would suggest corporeality with respect to God Most High — contrary to the Muʻtazilah, who deny the admissibility of that.