A critical review of Salafi physicalist theology on the issue of God's attributes

Abstract :

The understanding of the Salafists in the issue of God's attributes is strongly based on sensory knowledge, and this point is affected by their epistemological method, such as appearanceism, lack of attention to interpretation, and negation of the perception of reason in general, which without taking into account the damages in sensory cognition, is the context for deviant interpretation in the doctrine. It has provided theological knowledge and especially the understanding of divine attributes; Physicality and belief in God's sensory vision is the result of a mistake in understanding God's attributes. This view of the Salafists originates from a sensuous epistemological base that aligns them with physicalists; In the view of physicalism as a naturalistic stream, everything and not only matter can be reduced to physical properties, and any knowledge can be expressed in the form of statements about physical objects. . As the architect of Salafi thought, Ibn Taymiyyah considered sense as the only way to know external reality, which means that whatever is not imperceptible is non-existent. This article has tried to answer the question whether Salafists' understanding of news attributes is not a type of physicalist theology. In this article, an attempt is made to reflect on the nature of physicalist theology, the understanding of the Salafis, and especially Ibn Taymiyyah, on divine attributes, and its reduction to material affairs and returning it to tangible phenomena, is considered a physicalist explanation and criticizes it. to present