Creation of Human Acts: Divine Causation, Acquisition and Choice
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- What is the central Sunni distinction concerning human actions?
- If a person deliberately lies, which analysis is appropriate?
- What chiefly distinguishes khalq from kasb?
- What concern primarily motivates the Muʿtazilī assertion of human origination?
- Why does calling someone a builder differ from calling them an independent creator?
- What is the target of the argument from detailed knowledge?
- How do intention and exhaustive knowledge of bodily motion relate in walking?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes jahl from dhuhūl?
- How does reading mā as a verbal-noun particle affect Qurʾān 37:96?
- What sense arises if mā in the same verse is relative?
- What methodological principle follows from acknowledging two grammatical analyses?
- What premise is central when applying “Creator of everything” to human acts?
- What is the purpose of the contrast “Does one who creates equal one who cannot?”
- Which example correctly illustrates the distinction between creation and predication?
- What distinguishes intentional movement from a tremor?
- What feature of the servant matters for praise and blame?
- Why is identifying divine creation with absolute compulsion mistaken?
- What assumption underlies the objection “How can reward and punishment be just?”
- What does not follow from God creating an act?
- Which distinction correctly describes means, instrument and creator?
- Which inference from “best of creators” is unwarranted?
- How should “you shape/create” in Qurʾān 5:110 be understood regarding Jesus?
- What is the first step when a theologian calls a human agent “creator”?
- Which statement correctly relates creation and moral evaluation?
- Which distinction is most important before studying decree and destiny?
- Which conclusion most faithfully captures the unit?
- The relative and verbal-noun readings of mā can change the immediate meaning of “wa-mā taʿmalūn.”
- God’s creation of human acts entails that God eats, walks, or commits sin.
- Acquisition and voluntary choice help explain praise, blame, and obligation against absolute compulsion.
- Calling a craftsperson a “maker” necessarily attributes divine creation from nothing to that person.