2. Second objection
He says: “The Shia, following the Mutazila, deny the possibility of seeing
God on Judgment Day, His qualities and His creatorship and that He is the
creator of acts of people. Whereas scholars of traditions, Sunnah and authors of
books, like the four imams believe that Almighty Allah is the creator of
everything – even the acts of human beings and also that it would be possible to
see God on Judgment Day.
It is amazing that Shia do not ascribe to these beliefs due to the fear of
similitude (Tash-beeh), whereas they believe in similitude (Tash-beeh) and
incarnation of God into human beings and describe God with defective qualities.
That is why Ahle Sunnat regard Shia and Mutazila as heretics and deviant.”1
Reply to second objection
This man, Qaseemi, has followed Ibne Taymiyyah and his student, Ibne
Qayyim regarding the being of God and His qualities, because as Zarqani Maliki
has mentioned in the book of Sharah Mawahib,2 the views of those two regarding
qualities of God is to prove corporeality.
He also says: “Manawi has said that the two of them are definitely heretics.”
In spite of that Qaseemi has regarded them noble, argues in their favor and accepts them. He has issued many statements about them. We did not at present
aim to refute this false viewpoint and instead ask the readers to refer to books of
scholastic theology; what is important for us is to inform the readers of his
falsehoods and allegations against Shia.
Indeed, the Shia, in denying the possibility of seeing God and Judgment Day
are not followers of Mutazila; on the contrary the Shia follow this fact, which is
clear from texts as well as reason. The Shia are away from imagined beliefs like
incarnation of soul, similitude of God, describing God with defective qualities
and they deny the negative qualities of God.
On the contrary, all Shia regard a believer in these things to be infidels as is
clear from modern and ancient Shia books of scholastic theology. Qaseemi
cannot bring any evidence of his allegations. I swear by my life, if he has any
evidence, he would have definitely mentioned it.
Yes, the Shia deny that qualities of Almighty Allah are other than His being
and they don’t believe that qualities are same His being, and they do not believe
in multiplicity of origin.
As for the acts of human beings: If it implies that acts of human beings are
originally created by God, it would be necessary that promise and threats and
rewards and punishment of God, all should be useless, because punishing for a
sin that one has been compelled to commit by God is wrong. This is one of the
most difficult issues of scholastic theology and lot of discussion has gone into
this, and one, who says that the acts of human beings are created by God, has in
fact, unknowingly attributed wrong to God. The imagined consensus of Qaseemi
is of no use before established evidences.
As for the wrong attribution of Shia to Mutazila is an old habit of Ahle Sunnat, which is clear to all.3