Modern Mu’tazila on Clubhouse

Description

Muʿtazila (Arabic: المعتزلة‎ al-muʿtazilah, English: “Those Who Withdraw, or Stand Apart”), also called Ahl al-ʿAdl wa al-Tawḥīd, is an Islamic group that appeared in early Islāmic history in the dispute over Alī's leadership of the Muslim community after the death of the third caliph, Uthman. Those who would neither condemn nor sanction ʿAlī or his opponents but took a middle position between him and his opponents at the battle of Siffin and the battle of Jamal were termed the Muʿtazilah. By the 10th century CE the term had also come to refer to an Islamic school of speculative theology (kalām) that flourished in Basra and Baghdad (8th–10th century).
Tawheed: This means the absence of plurality and attributes.
Justice (‘adl): This means that God is just and that He does not oppress His creatures.
Divine retribution (at-wa’d wa al-wa’id): This means that God has determined a reward for the obedient and a punishment for the disobedient, and there can be no uncertainty about it. Therefore, Divine pardon is only possible if the sinner rep