They argued that whosoever maintains emphatically that the...

They argued that whosoever maintains emphatically that the Qur’an is created comes closer to the views of the atheists since the atheists said that the Qur’an was a creation of the Prophet’s mind. To support their argument, they cited a verse from the Qur’an, in which Allah Himself explains the unbelievers’ faith by saying: “This (the Qur’an) is saying of man.” (4) Al-Ashari writes: “Anybody who maintains that Qur’an is created, verily believes that Qur’an is man’s words.

Such idea is like the ideas of unbelievers.” The criticism of the Mutazilah seems to be a criticism far from the truth. They say that the Ashairah, supported by some orientalists, borrowed this doctrine of the eternity of the Qur’an and its uncreatedness from Jewish or Christian interpretation of the term “Logos”.

As the Ashairah has based their doctrine on the apparent meanings of some of the Quranic verses, they may not be blamed for adopting this view from alien sources and then reconciling it with the Quranic verses.

But we have to concede to some extent that the issues concerning the Divine Attributes in general, and the controversy regarding the Qur’an in particular, have emerged and developed in the course of controversies and discourses among theologists of Islam and the use of other religions, during which they came in contact with the works of each other.

The same is applicable in the context of medieval Christian scholasticism and the role of Descartes, and in the context of Medieval philosophy of Judaism and its impact on the modern philosophy of Europe through Spinoza.

Whenever we want to compare and contrast some sacred things in Islam and Christianity, we should try to compare the image of Christ in the Christian view with the words of the Qur’an and their nature, because both the Qur’an and Isa Masih are called Kalimat Allah (The Word of Allah).