(*) The Master = Abu Mansur `Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi, author of Usul al-Din, al-Farq Bayn al-Firaq, and other important works of doctrine. Thisĭissent does not expel them from that status.” “Yet all are considered al-Ash’ari’s followers. “Some Ash’aris even said Prophets are completely free “And we say that we are on his path but his companionsĪre split in two parties over the matter. “Al-Ash’ari is our Imam but in this we differ with him “It is the position I take and was that of my father “Preclusion is narrated from the Master(*) and al-Qadi “They said Allah precludes small sins from ProphetsĪnd in our School are two positions. 223), a youthful work consisting of his class-notes from Imam al-Haramayn.īut Imam Taj al-Din al-Subki said in his Qasida Nuniyya: Imam al-Ghazzali said the same in substance in al-Mankhul (p. The stories of the Prophets in many a verse of the Book of Allah Most High bear witness to that.
So if it is said that since the matter is conjectural, what is the strongest conjecture in the matter in your opinion? We say: Our strongest conjecture is that they are possible. The explicit, unambiguous or un-interpretable texts that would categorically establish the principles pertaining to this issue are simply not found. For explicitly categorical proofs come either from explicit texts (nusus) or from consensus (ijma’) and there is no consensus, since the ulema differ over the possibility of small sins for Prophets. I did not come upon a categorically explicit transmitted proof either negating them or asserting them. “As for sins that are considered small, according to specificity as we shall explain, the minds do not deny them. Ibn al-Juwayni (Imam al-Haramayn) said in al-Irshad (p. And I’m not sure where this principle is found in the Quran and sunnah. But I think my real difficulty with the issue is that it seems like I’ve often heard the claim that there is agreement (ijma) that all the prophets are protected from sin to some degree but 1) I’m not sure of what the limits are of that protection. And I actually don’t think that it would be so terrible if occasionally some of the prophets said “Do as I say, not as I do”. Question: I come from a Christian background and so I was raised to think of the prophets (except for Jesus) as capable of sin.
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