Linguistic Consideration of Theologians

Section: Article
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
86-102

Abstract

. : : . : () . ( ) . : () () () () . : ( ) () ( ) 88 . .Language and its phenomena used in establishing the Islamic belief and ideas are very important. We found that there are many of theologians utilize language in order to confirm the ideal and theological significances and concepts to Moslems generally; this is what we obviously notice from their books they composed. Hence, I have manifested, in my research, the bases on which using the linguistic issues in the speech debates are based. Research is divided into the following chapters:Chapter One explains speech ideas and concepts through many issues, such as idea of attributes and their relation to the God's self. The theologians used derivation concept in refuting Al-Mo'tazila who denied the attributes and that the meaning of derivation differentiates between the derived and derivative and other linguistic issues through which theologians used belief significances and ideas, such as verbs creation and theologians' disagreement with regard to body concept. Chapter Two talks about supporting the Sunnites' belief by using linguistic significances in many issues such as vision one. The significance of article () is one of the Sunnites' evidences when they had refuted Al-Mo'tazila who denied the vision. Chapter Three tackles of raising doubts and ambiguities. Theologians utilized linguistic significances in considering Allah too exalted for all attributes that are not good. We found many linguistic issues used by theologians to raise the doubts and ambiguities, such as significance of (the hand), (the eye), and other words attributed to Allah in the Holy Koran and Sunna of the prophet. Chapter Four shows reasons of theologians' disagreement. We found that there are many speech opinions based on linguistic bases, for example, attribute of creation, stated by some theologians (Al-Matriddya). Some of them accepted that objectiveness can be attributed to the God's self, depending on Allah's say: (every thing is destroyed but his face Allah's face) [The Stories chapter of the Holy Koran/ 88], because Allah is an object but not like the objects. Through already mentioned, we found that the Arabic language has a role in the theologians' idea. This may raise many questions, for example, does the belief science support the language, theoretically and practically? Their stance, related to showing the role of language in supporting the belief of the Holy Koran, was very obvious.

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