{"id":4055,"date":"2021-10-21T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T08:45:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-10-21T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T08:45:07","slug":"the-relation-of-the-shia-with-the-mutazilah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4055\/the-relation-of-the-shia-with-the-mutazilah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relation of the Shia with the Mu\u2018tazilah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Relation of the Shia with the Mu\u2018tazilah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>QUESTION: <\/strong><\/span>For what reason have the principles of religion been divided into five principles? Has the link of the Shi\u2018a with the Mu\u2018tazilah played any role in that?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong><\/span> The Shi\u2018a have conducted discussions and debates about Islamic issues with all sects, as mentioned in books of kalam (theology) and polemics. However, they have not influenced it with regard to any issues of creed. As we have mentioned numerous times, the Shi\u2018a school of thought is an original Islamic school of thought, though the remaining sects appeared afterwards.<br \/>\nThe beliefs of the Shi\u2018a are not limited to these five principles, but rather comprise many other issues as well. Of course, in one exposition, the Islamic beliefs can be summarized into tawhid (Divine unity), nubuwwah (prophecy), and ma`ad (resurrection), or in tawhid and nubuwwah, since the remaining beliefs, such as Imamah (vicegerency) and resurrection are a part of the issues which the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) preached and informed about. And according to the narrations, faith in the prophecy consists of faith in all that the Prophet conveyed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0650\u064a\u0645\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064f \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u0646\u0651\u064f\u0628\u064f\u0648\u0651\u064e\u0629\u0650 \u0625\u0650\u064a\u0645\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064c \u0628\u0650\u0643\u064f\u0644\u0651\u0650 \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0623\u064e\u0646\u0652\u0628\u064e\u0623\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0646\u0652\u0647\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0651\u064e\u0628\u064a\u0651\u064f<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nFaith in the prophecy consists of faith in all that the Prophet conveyed.<br \/>\nOn this basis, these five principles \u2013 Divine unity, Divine justice, prophecy, Imamah, and the resurrection \u2013 are among the principles in which all Muslims must believe. Reason and revelation also affirm them. Summarizing the beliefs in these five principles is because the Shi\u2018a regard the issue of Divine justice and the Imamah as important as the remaining principles of belief, but Ahl al-Sunnat \u2013 the Ash`ari sect \u2013 do not believe in them.<br \/>\nThe Shi\u2018a have taken the Islamic beliefs directly from the Holy Qur\u2019an and the traditions of the Prophet and Imams (peace be upon them) and have not been influenced by the Mu\u2018tazilah with respect to any of their beliefs, since the Mu\u2018tazilah sect came into being afterwards.<br \/>\nIf we see that the Mu\u2018tazilah share the Shi\u2018a view in some issues, what is proper is that we say that they have taken these views from the Shi\u2018a Imams either directly or indirectly. The well-known proverb, &#8220;Belief in coercion and anthropomorphism is Umayyad and belief in Justice and unity is an Alawi doctrine,&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>\u0627\u0644\u062c\u064e\u0628\u0652\u0631\u064f \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0651\u064e\u0634\u0628\u0650\u064a\u0647\u064f \u0623\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0648\u0650\u064a\u0651\u064e\u0627\u0646 \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0652\u0639\u064e\u062f\u0652\u0644\u064f \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0651\u064e\u0648\u062d\u0650\u064a\u062f\u064f \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0648\u0650\u064a\u0651\u064e\u0627\u0646<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">confirms this claim.<br \/>\nIn spite of this, some writers who are ignorant of the Shi\u2018a school of thought and have researched the Mu\u2018tazili and Ash\u2018ari sects have assumed the Shi\u2018a scholars, among them Sayyid Murta\u00a4a, were Mu\u2018tazili since they found them opposed to some Ash\u2018ari beliefs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7w1Xxkldla\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4906\/an-introduction-to-ilm-al-kalam\/\">An Introduction to &#8216;Ilm al-Kalam<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;An Introduction to &#8216;Ilm al-Kalam&#8221; &#8212; Shia Studies&#039; World Assembly\" src=\"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4906\/an-introduction-to-ilm-al-kalam\/embed\/#?secret=On7z1lpMSs#?secret=7w1Xxkldla\" data-secret=\"7w1Xxkldla\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Relation of the Shia with the Mu\u2018tazilah QUESTION: For what reason have the principles of religion been divided into five principles? Has the link of the Shi\u2018a with the Mu\u2018tazilah played any role in that? ANSWER: The Shi\u2018a have conducted discussions and debates about Islamic issues with all sects, as mentioned in books of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7775,19863],"tags":[20638,19650,19669],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-scholastic-theology","category-shia-beliefs","tag-mutazilah","tag-shia","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}