LessonsDivine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and NamingQuiz

أسماء الله تعالى توقيفية
The principle that divine names require warrant from revelation.

Expressing a sound rational description is not identical to instituting a new proper divine name. Under the tawqīf approach, revealed usage governs divine naming, especially where a word risks implying bodily composition or creaturely likeness. The commentary also considers objections and alternative analyses of this issue; linguistic possibility alone does not settle every naming question.

Conclusion: affirming life, knowledge, power, will, hearing and sight; denying ignorance, impotence and other deficiencies; rejecting dependence as an accident, body or material substance; and exercising care over divine names form a coherent theological account.

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Tawqīf in divine naming and the concluding distinction

Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming

أسماء الله تعالى توقيفية
The principle that divine names require warrant from revelation.

Expressing a sound rational description is not identical to instituting a new proper divine name. Under the tawqīf approach, revealed usage governs divine naming, especially where a word risks implying bodily composition or creaturely likeness. The commentary also considers objections and alternative analyses of this issue; linguistic possibility alone does not settle every naming question.

Conclusion: affirming life, knowledge, power, will, hearing and sight; denying ignorance, impotence and other deficiencies; rejecting dependence as an accident, body or material substance; and exercising care over divine names form a coherent theological account.