The position of Mu'tazila and Ash'ari on the mind

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
759-780

Abstract

The importance of the mind was not that it was the tool used by the speakers in defense of Sharia, the only reason for their concern for the intellect, but rather for the connection of the mind with other verbal problems, which plagued the Islamic thought in general and the verbal thought in particular, which is the problem of "reason and transmission" and this problem called the basis for many verbal problems, no Rather, the difference in the beginning with the mind or the transmission indicates the difference in the Islamic difference and in the perception of the relationship between them. The position of the Mu'tazila and the Ash'ari on the mind can be summed up in it that both schools agreed on the consideration leading to the knowledge of God Almighty is a duty, but they differed in the method of proving it. There is no need for Sharia to prove it, just as they believed in agreement between the mind and the transmission. But if the mind disagrees with the transmission, "the mind is taken and the transmission is interpreted. "The Alash'ari have tried to reconsider the role of the mind, and they went not to give the mind absolute importance, because giving the absolute importance to the mind does not always lead to the support of the Sharia, but rather it requires the negation of the law and its replacement with the intellect, just as the Mu'tazila said that the mind is not able to comprehend the rulings of God, so it must be The messengers are sent, and that the way to prove God.

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Abdul Ilah Ahmed, H., هجران, Abdul-Jabbar, R., & رؤى. (2025). The position of Mu’tazila and Ash’ari on the mind. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 51(85), 759–780. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2021.168333