Created beings may experience pleasure or anger as changing conditions caused by external events.
A person may become angry at something disliked or pleased by an agreeable event. Such susceptibility to external effects is described as infiʿāl or taʾaththur—being affected and changed.
Allah's essence and attributes are free of creaturely conditions. Divine pleasure and anger are affirmed, but their reality is not understood by analogy with the changing emotions of created beings.
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Human Ability and Acts, Divine Will and Decree, and Pleasure and Anger
Created beings may experience pleasure or anger as changing conditions caused by external events.
A person may become angry at something disliked or pleased by an agreeable event. Such susceptibility to external effects is described as infiʿāl or taʾaththur—being affected and changed.
Allah's essence and attributes are free of creaturely conditions. Divine pleasure and anger are affirmed, but their reality is not understood by analogy with the changing emotions of created beings.