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Investigating the Causes and Consequences of Salafiyya’s Tendency towards Empiricism in Understanding the Predicative Attributes

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor of Islamic Theology and New Theology at the Research Institute for Culture and Thought of Islam
10.22034/qabasat.2024.2027453.2306
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One of the important issues in understanding religion is accurate and factual knowledge of predicative attributes, attributes such as God’s face, hand, and eye, and God's settle on the Throne and attributes like these, which attention to the apparent meaning and lack of interpretation will cause a physical interpretation for God. Understanding predictive features based on sensory knowledge is more prone to error than other knowledge. Although sensory perception provides us with information about existence and is informative in explaining religious teachings, it is invalid in the field of understanding predictive attributes. But in understanding these attributes, the Salafiyya present an approach based on sensory knowledge and by emphasizing that God’s attributes have quality, even though they are unknown, they promote empiricist and materialistic monotheism. This paper has tried to answer the question of what are the causes of Salafiyya’s empiricism and what are the consequences of understanding the predictive attributes. In this essay, an attempt is made to discuss the shortcomings of sensory knowledge in understanding the attributes and critically examine the tendency of Salafiyya towards empiricism, causes such as distance from rational thinking, complete trust in the understanding of the Salaf and being influenced by the followers of non-Islamic religions and consequences such as the human image of God. , the inverted understanding of the levels of monotheism and the sufficiency of text in the context of Salafiyya’s empiricism in the understanding of the predicative attributes should be examined and criticized.
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