An Investigation on the Sameness of Attributes of the Transcendent Necessary Being (God) with His Essence, Enjoying the Conditional Mode (Taqyidiyyah)

The manner of relation between attributes of God with His essence is one of the prior issues in the theological and doctrinal discussions. There aredifferent attitudes In this regard explained by theologians and theosophists. Some believe that the essence of the transcendent necessary being (God) would not be characterized with an attribute due to his simplicity and the Quranic uses of the attributes are metaphorical. Ashairah permitted characterization of the essence with some of the attributes and in the other hand they believe in Qudama' Al-Thamanyah (eight pre-eternals, that is, seven attributes that are to be added to the essence [of God]) due to the contradiction between the essence and attributes. Instead, Ahl al-Bayt school presents the Idea of the sameness of attributes and the essence of God that is considered by Shia theologians and Muslim theosophists. In the manner of analysis of his sameness and its quality different discussions came up that its climax could be found in Islamic mysticism enjoying the combinatorial and aspectual Taqyidiyyah (Conditional) Mode. From the perspective of Islamic mysticism, God have all the attributes in a combinatorial mode in the essence stage; and all the positive attributes of perfection exist in this stage of essence and there is no distinction between them, regarding the Idea that Basit al-Haqiqa Kull al-Ashya' (the truth in its state of simplicity contains all things) from the aspectual Taqyidiyyah (conditional) mode of God. As the existence is the exact existence of truth in the matrix of essence, attributes of perfection are also the exact existence, because they are aspects of existence.