Methodology of inferring the existence of Allah according to Ibn Juzai al-Kalbi

Abstract

Ibn Juzai al-Kalbi al-Gharnati (died: 741 AH) is considered one of the distinguished scholars of the Islamic Ummah, and he has a visible and remaining imprint in many of the Sharia sciences: “Tafsir”, “Aqida”, “Osul”, etc. ..., He had a great interest in his books on the topic of proving the existence of Allah, he was varied in inference and branch, and asked questions and answered them. The issue of proving the existence of Allah has become important in this era when atheism has increased, and spread suspicions among Muslims until groups of youth fell into it. The research aims to identify methods of inferring the existence of Allah through Ibn Juzai’s presentation of them, and then we discuss the methods of inference that he mentioned to distinguish the correct one from these methods and what can be used in this important issue. The approach used in this research is the descriptive, inductive, comparative approach. The most important conclusions of the research are: That the issue of proving existence is an independent case of the subject of the unification of deism (AL-Rubūbīyyah), and its inclusion in it is not correct. Ibn Juzai used a variety of methods to infer the existence of Allah, in which he combines between the minds with what the Sharia has stated. The total of the methods that he used are: The path of contemplation of the universe, creatures, and creativity in the creation of man, and the path of the miracles of the Prophets and their news and the news of the nations that deny them and how Allah destroyed them, and the path of instinct that testifies to the existence of Allah, and he also used the path of occurrence and the path of possibility, but he presented them in a simple way away from the complexities of the speakers (Al Mutakallimin) and their terminology, However, they are two ways that do not devoid from the Slanders and the Oppositions.