Eternal Knowledge, Power, Life, Will and Their Relations
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- When a new event occurs, what changes under the doctrine of eternal knowledge?
- What follows from God’s knowing a currently nonexistent but possible thing?
- What distinguishes eternal knowledge of Zayd entering tomorrow from his actual entry tomorrow?
- Why does knowing an impossible proposition not make it possible?
- What is the proper domain of power as contrasted with knowledge?
- What does “it affects things within its power when related to them” express?
- How should the claim that a body be wholly moving and at rest at once in the same respect be assessed?
- What is intended by “life entails the suitability for knowledge” in this context?
- Which statement correctly relates quwwah to qudrah here?
- What distinction is made between the objects of hearing and sight?
- Why does affirming divine hearing not require ears or sound-carrying air?
- Which form of apprehension is excluded by “complete apprehension through them”?
- What motivates the view that hearing and sight are merely kinds of knowledge?
- What does overlap in the objects of two attributes not necessarily imply?
- Why does eternal hearing and sight not imply eternal audible and visible things?
- How are irādah and mashīʾah related in the present discussion?
- What is the specification (takhṣīṣ) of possible things?
- What is the principal distinction between power and will here?
- What mistake results from equating command with will?
- What cannot be inferred merely from the occurrence of disobedience?
- How is the objection that eternal will concerns a later act answered?
- What distinguishes takwīn from mukawwan?
- What is the central Ashʿarī–Māturīdī disagreement concerning takwīn?
- What does the diversity of names such as creating, giving life, and providing sustenance not imply?
- Which general principle best unites the discussions of eternal attributes and temporal creation?
- What is the best response to “Knowledge covers everything, so will must simply be knowledge”?
- If a future temporal event is known eternally, the event itself must also be eternal.
- In the Māturīdī formulation, eternal takwīn and a temporally originated mukawwan are not contradictory because they are distinct.
- The occurrence of a forbidden act necessarily shows that it is religiously approved.
- Affirming divine hearing and sight as genuine attributes does not entail bodily ears, eyes, or light-dependent organs.