WILLPOWER AND VOLITION IN THE CONTEXT OF AHL AL- SUNNAH KALAM
Abstract
The subject that people are more interested at the beginning of the history of Kalam is the willpower and volition of God and the question of man's freedom. Indeed, many schools of Kalam particularly in Determinists groups (Necessitarianism)/al-Cabriyya and Mutazila have been formed by depending on subject of God's will, human will, guidance and misguidance. Nowadays, with the freedom of will of God and the human, suggested that syntactic analysis in some verses in the Quran but these are private and contrary to the integrity of semantic context. In this study, Fakhr al-Din Razi (d.606/1209) centralized whom Ash'ari thinker in theology and also proved itself as well as other Islamic sciences and in this, have been made comparative assessments about Maturidite and Mu'tazila's approaches