Increase and Decrease of Faith: Assent, Conviction, and Detailed Belief

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• What exactly is meant by the “essence of faith” in the claim that it does not increase or decrease?
• If deeds are included in the definition of faith, why does increase and decrease follow?
• What is the correct scope of the non-increase position associated with Abū Ḥanīfah?
• Where does the disagreement lie between strength of conviction and invariability of categorical assent?
• Which example correctly distinguishes general and detailed faith?
• What is the sound interpretive approach to “that they increase in faith” in Qur’an 48:4?
• Which is a defensible explanation of faith increasing upon recitation of revelation?
• How can detailed assent grow after the end of revelation?
• Which distinction between assent and its fruits is sound?
• Why does a state of faith persisting through time not automatically constitute increase in essence?
• Which pair accurately describes numerical and qualitative increase?
• What does NOT follow from saying believers share the essence of assent?
• What did Abraham seek in “but so that my heart may be reassured”?
• What distinction does Qur’an 27:14 support in this theological debate?
• Why is mere recognition judged insufficient as a definition of faith?
• Which sequence best reflects the analysis of “assent as binding the heart”?
• Why is there an objection about knowledge from proof and the obligation of faith?
• What distinction is used when examining a voluntary aspect of assent?
• Which distinction between inquiry and its result is correct?
• Which is an instance of numerical increase in detailed assent?
• Which claim about general and detailed assent is incorrect?
• How can texts about increase be reconciled with the account of fixed foundational assent?
• Which reading misuses the account of Abraham in the debate about faith?
• What common point emerges from Qur’an 27:14 and 2:146 in this discussion?
• What is needed before describing the controversy about increase as merely verbal?
• What follows about moral responsibility if foundational faith is defined as assent?
• The claim that basic assent does not vary entails identical reward for all believers.
• A believer learning a new detail and a new command being revealed are distinct events.
• Abraham’s account combines existing belief in resurrection with a request for reassurance.
• Comprehending a report always amounts to accepting it in faith.