حضور النص في "أصل التوحيد" عند المعتزلة

Abstract EN

Mu'tazilah was known as a rhetorical sect more than a political one; it defended the Islamic faith against various groups, whether or not Islamic.

it was famous of saying “mind before hearing”.

here, arises the question about the status of the text in its origins in general and monotheism in particular, as being the head of the five origins? Mu'tazilis' preface to the mind neither does mean their neglect to the religion nor is it the result of their conviction of the superiority of the mind over the text.

however, it means that the mind serves religion, or is a means of understanding, and issuance of legal rulings.

more than that, god singled out the rational being, which is human, to succeed him.

Mu'tazilis' preface to the mind in its origins in general and monotheism in particular was not a matter of preference, but rather a matter of priority.

in terms of preference, the divine law is the first because it is the first destination of the purposes of the Islamic law, and the mind is the second, but as a matter of priority, the mind remains the first, because the Mu'tazilite method required that.