NATURE OF GOD

NATURE OF GOD
In Islamic theology there is disagreement on the question of whether God has a nature or not. Nature, in the sense of something that has its own form in addition to the essence. Some say there is flow and others say no. This problem is also mentioned here.
The (mutakalimin) in discussing the question of God's nature can be divided roughly into two groups in opposite opinion.
First, the flow Mu'tazilite who understand and discuss this issue with the opinion that God does not have the trait. They think if God has a nature, that nature must be conserved as well as the substance of the Lord. But if so then what is eternal is not another one, but a lot. If God has the properties it will lead to understand many of the eternal. Which subsequently gave birth to understand shirk or (polytheism) as something that has no place in Islamic theology.
So according Mu'tazilite Lord is one does not have the properties as the opinion of the other faction. What was viewed as the nature of the group opinion, for Mu'tazilite none other than God's own substance. To purify the oneness of God faction Mu'tazilite invalidate the properties for the gods. By doing so, groups claim to be the class Mu'tazilite Ahlut Wa'dil Tawhid. God is one without adding anything.
Second, the flow Asy'ariyyah which in this case addresses the question of God's attributes by taking the opposite stance with first class or Mu'tazilite opinion.
Third, the flow Maturidiah that discusses that God has properties. Eternal attributes of God through eternity contained in the essence of God and not by nature itself.

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