The people of the Sunnah and the community
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
أهل السنة والجماعة · Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamāʻah · ahl al-sunnah wa-l-jamāʻah · the people of the Sunnah and the community · the people of the truth · أهل الحق · اهل السنة من سلف الأمة
in the texts
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The Sunnī mainstream, whose doctrine on the ontological status of spirit and intellect is reported approvingly.
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
Ahl al-sunnah wa-l-jamāʻah, the Sunni community whose beliefs the creed professes to state in order, invoked with a prayer for the victory of their realm, and appealed to again by the editor — in the form of the forebears of the community — for the doctrine of efficacious human acquisition.
these are the beliefs of the people of the truth, the people of the Sunnah and the community — may God exalt their word and support their realm with victory.
And the doctrine of the people of the Sunnah among the forebears of the community is that the servant’s acquisition is efficacious in his deed, like all other causes, but by God Most High’s creating — for it is He who created for him the limbs, the sensory faculties and the intellect, who bestowed upon him knowledge, will and power, and who made the causes subservient to him;